Corruption Is Your Oxygen - APC Blasts PDP | CNR

The All Progressives Congress, APC has reacted to a statement by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, describing the PDP as a party that depends on corruption as its oxygen for survival.

The APC was reacting to a statement yesterday by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in which he criticized plan the Federal Government to involve the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in  monitoring campaign funds of political parties during the campaign for next year's general election. 

The party insisted that only INEC is given the constitutional mandate to monitor campaign funds.

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The statement by Mr. Ologbondiyan said: "Also, the plan by INEC to ask EFCC to help them monitor campaign funds is clearly an illegal and Machiavellian way of suppressing opposition’s financial contribution and spending.  It is a plot to detain, defame, intimidate and illegally block bank accounts of opposition members under the pretext that they have been mandated by INEC to monitor campaign funds".

But reacting to the statement by PDP,  APC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi in Abuja Wednesday said the opposition party is afraid of transparency and accountability.

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"What is the PDP  afraid of? It is clear that the party is still in the past when public funds is criminally diverted to sponsor its political activities.

It is obvious that the PDP is still terrified by transparency, preferring instead that Nigerians continue to wallow in the culture of corruption and impunity that it had entrenched in the country because that is the only way the party knows how to operate.

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"Corruption is their oxygen. ThevAPC welcomes ant measure taken to ensure transparency in electoral financing", the APC insisted.