The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of ignoring some reports of sleazes going on in the country.
A statement on Sunday by PDP national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh said while Buhari is expected to bring all corrupt persons to justice, especially fund looters, some in his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) are left out of the war against corruption.
The party alleged that beneficiaries of corruption and allies of the APC believed that with the new government in place, they were now safe as members of the ruling party.
The PDP said it had noted what it described as deliberate resort to diversionary blackmail and overused excuses by APC government to shy away from providing answers to the salient issue of “unprecedented damage” it has done to the nation’s economy in its 90 days in office.
“The PDP has severally expressed its support for a holistic fight against corruption and we have challenged the federal government to investigate and prosecute all corrupt persons irrespective of ethnic and political affiliations,” it said.
“We are, therefore, appalled that instead of getting serious with the challenges of governance, the APC is bent on inventing excuse for its crass incompetence to create and manage wealth, to the detriment of the nation.
“Are we not already experiencing the consequences of abuse of rules such as the foisting of foreign exchange transaction restrictions in violation of the Foreign Exchange Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, otherwise known as Decree No. 17 of 1995?”
PDP further asked the APC to provide answer to the report by Fitch Rating, which alerted that Nigerian banks and other businesses in the sector were now at risk following the economic slowdown occasioned by the incompetence of the President Buhari-led government. .
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