By Dele Ogbodo
The Presidency on Monday urged the Secretary a General of the United Nations (UN) to discountenance the letter written by the National Chairman
of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Uche Secondus, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of several allegations because it is misleading.
While condemning the letter, it accused the opposition party of being a bad loser, desperate for another chance after they were kicked out of power for failing the nation and its people.
In a statement signed by Mr. Garba Shehu, the Spokesman to Buhari, said the letter which is no less preposterous and comical, accused the government of destroying Nigeria’s democracy.
The statement read: “The war against corruption, for which many more politicians may soon be docked, cannot be misrepresented as an attack on human rights and Mr. Secondus should not try to mislead the UN.
“Nigerian politicians at all levels have been used to dispensing with state funds in whatever manner they please, and to have someone, an administration, finally saying, “No. It doesn’t matter how big or important you think you are; the law must come against you…” That is not something they are used to at all. For the PDP, as has now emerged, national security was the major source of their funding.”
According to Shehu, PDP’s lecture on democracy and the rule of law coming from a party with a tradition of undemocratic rule is a desperate attempt to pervert history and the course of justice.
“The sermon, is both trite and hollow, coming from a party with intolerance for dissent as its hallmark. A party that humiliated opposition parties and stunted their growth. This was the atmosphere that nurtured the birth of the All Progressives Congress (APC.)”
Nigerian politicians at all levels, according to the statement have been used to dispensing with state funds in whatever manner they please, stressing: And to have someone, an administration, finally saying, “No. It doesn’t matter how big or important you think you are; the law must come against you…” That is not something they are used to at all.
“The PDP Chairman and all other politicians against whom the country’s anti-corruption agencies have on-going investigations, should be assured that it is only a matter of time before the law catches up with them, and makes them pay for the grief their mismanagement of the past has caused, and is still causing Nigerians.
If the public were privy to some of the facts and figures on corruption that President Buhari and the anti-corruption agencies have, they would understand the passion that drives the determination to nail these callous men and stop them in their corrupt tracks.
Regarding the accusation that President Buhari is behind the spate of herdsmen and farmer clashes in the Middle Belt of Nigeria,
On the clashes between herdsmen and farmers, it said it is an embarrassing charge that the PDP would make, conveying an allegation from the beer parlours of Nigeria to an international body like the UN.
According to Shehu, PDP certainly has no shred of evidence to make such an allegation, explaining that its comments are driven by tribalism and that age-old trick of balkanisation in a bid to score political points.
He said: “The various lengths to which President Buhari has gone to end the spate of killings, such as mobilising state resources against the attackers, approving the setting up of new police and army formations in the affected areas, and the recruitment of thousands into the police and other arms of the military, are a few of the several steps taken which a more reasonable opposition will acknowledge.”