The Action Congress of Nigeria,ACN, has said that the crisis now tearing the Lagos state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party apart, over the sharing of SURE-P funds among members, has justified its (CAN) stands that the funds meant to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal have now become a 2015 campaign war chest for President Goodluck Jonathan.
Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, was establish to use savings from scrapped subsidy of petroleum products for infrastructural development and employment generation.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said when it alerted the nation on the abuse of the SURE-P funds in a statement on Feb. 3rd 2013, the FG as well as SURE-P managers rushed to deny any abuse of the funds and called the party (ACN) unprintable names.
According to the spokesman, ”Today, the truth has prevailed as the PDP members themselves have confirmed that the SURE-P funds are being shared among them across the federation.
”Thanks to the alleged hijacking of the SURE-P funds meant for the PDP members in Lagos State by the Bode George faction and the crisis that it has generated, the nation can now see that the Jonathan Administration has willfully converted the money accruing from SURE-P to campaign funds.
”This is a very serious violation of the constitution, because the State Implementation Committee (SIC), a body not recognised”, the statement concluded.
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