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You lack moral authority to query Buhari’s govt, APC tells PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no moral authority to caution or query President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

This is coming as the main opposition party yesterday cautioned the National Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, to stop sending impostors in his party to insult PDP governors and other patriotic leaders just to divert attention from the failures and problems of his party.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena, in a statement issued yesterday, said the subsidy regime and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been so transparent under the Buhari-led administration, unlike under during the previous PDP administrations.

He stressed that under the PDP administration, NNPC was accountable to no one to the extent that it owed the government up to the sum of N704 billion for gross violations of the subsidy scheme.

“It is baffling that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has to be told it does not have any moral authority to caution or query the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

“Between 2006 and 2013, PDP governments spent over N5.42 trillion on subsidy, which was 15.57 per cent higher than the 2014 national budget of N4.69 trillion. It was also under the PDP government that the number of fuel importers rose from five in 2006 to 10 in 2007, 19 in 2008 and spiked up to 140 in 2011. This was one of the biggest causes of corruption because many firms only existed on paper and collected subsidies on fuel that never existed.”

The party spokesman said to make matters worse, 60 million barrels of oil were stolen under the watch of PDP- controlled NNPC between 2009 and 2012.

Nabena stressed that NNPC during the PDP years also failed to remit $20 billion in oil revenues owed to the nation, which was confirmed by PwC and Deloitte investigative reports.

According to him, “The PDP has no genuine reason to cry wolf or display moral authority over subsidy under the Buhari administration”

Nabena added that PDP Spokesman, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, displayed his lack of understanding when he compared the minimum wage of Saudi Arabia and Egypt to buttress his points.

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