By Jennifer Y Omiloli
The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of taking opposition to a ludicrous dimension.
The gathering said that the most recent case by PDP of inefficient consumption and stolen reserves running into N14 trillion under the President Muhammadu Buhari organization was absurd.
As per the gathering, claims that such a sum was stolen under the President’s watch have no genuine premise indeed.
In an announcement marked by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said that the most recent act by the resistance could just have originated from comic characters.
“PDP’s latest claim is just a rehash of what this same party put out in a statement sometime in August last year when it demanded an explanation from President Buhari on an alleged N9tn contract said to have been awarded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
“We recall that back then, the Information Minister Lai Mohammed urged the party to direct all questions to the Minister of State for Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu who made what looked like the original allegation in a letter to the President.
“Kachikwu had even as far back as October 2017 clarified that the issue had more to do with governance, not fraud at the NNPC, at a three-day Nigerian content workshop organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in Owerri, Imo state.
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“Inspite of this, PDP has continued to raise the claims to tar the integrity of the Buhari administration with the hope that, like mud it would stick”.
The pro Buhari bunch likewise said it was amazed that any journalist deserving at least some respect would put his name on a statement that is loaded up with false cases that have throughout the years been exposed as phony news.
“The claims made in the PDP statement are cock and bull stories, just like the allegation that Keystone Bank shares belonged to President Buhari and his family. Of course, opposition elements were gleefully spreading this as part of their campaign for the Presidential election.
“The N14tn the party claimed was stolen is just slightly higher than N11.5tn, Nigeria’s annual total revenue from crude oil sales since June 2015.
“Even the so-called oil subsidy sleaze was investigated by Federal lawmakers at the instance of Senate President Bukola Saraki, and it was discovered that the NNPC has a revolving fund of $1.05 billion which it used to directly import and distribute fuel.
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“This can never be compared with the massive subsidy fraud that characterised the PDP years and which saw a number of party chieftains benefitting directly or through proxies from a scheme that cost the country trillions of naira and for which some subsidy thieves had been convicted and jailed.
“PDP’s spokesperson was a senior media aide to the then Senate President David Mark at the height of the multiple investigations into the subsidy scam and should know better.
“Also, the so-called NEMA scam is a figment of the imagination of PDP leaders and their media handlers as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is the target of this allegations, has since been cleared of any wrongdoing and no fund meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in North East Nigeria is missing,” the group said.
The group included that President Buhari won the 2019 elections reasonable and square and has no motivation to be excited about clutching power for ulterior motive.
