Campaign Funding: You are as guilty, PDP tells Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told President Muhammadu Buahri that he and his party are as guilty as its members and chieftains that are being hounded by the Economic and the Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the campaigns funds for the 2015 general elections.

The PDP, which dared the President to investigate the source of funds used for his political campaign in 2015, made the call after its national executive committee, NEC, meeting on Tuesday, adding that the probe of its members by the Buhari government is selective and an attempt to silence the opposition.

The PDP NEC called the Buhari administration to go after governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who have allegations of misuse of public funds “hanging on their necks”, and not just after members of the PDP.

A six point resolution by the PDP NEC reads as follows:

The NEC was well attended and has the National Chairman, H.E. Sen. (Dr.) Ali Modu Sheriff, the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, PDP State Governors, members of the National Working Committee (NWC), members and leaders of the National Assembly and other members of NEC and BOT.

The Meeting deliberated on several issues affecting the Party and the Nation and arrived at the following resolutions:

1.    That the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party will hold in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State at the Shark Stadium on Saturday, the 21st of May 2016 as earlier scheduled.

2.    That in-line with the Report of the Ekweremadu Committee, the forthcoming National Convention will formerly ratify the zoning of the PDP Presidential Ticket for the 2019 Presidential Election to the North

and the zoning of the National Chairmanship position to the South of the country, respectfully.

3.    NEC also resolved that due to the issues arising from the just concluded congresses at the wards, local governments and states, especially in Sokoto, Lagos, Osun and Adamawa states, that a Special

Committee shall be constituted after the National Convention to look into the matter accordingly.

4.     NEC observed and condemned in strong terms the arbitrary arrest and detention of PDP members on account of Party campaign funds by the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari and urged Nigerians and the International Community to request the APC Administration to investigate the campaign funds of its Party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) as some accusations of misuse of public funds are also levelled against

some APC governors and stakeholders.

5.    NEC further decried the selective probe of PDP members by the anti-graft agency under the administration of the APC as a case of witch-hunt and unnecessary oppression aimed at silencing members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

6.    NEC therefore demands the immediate release of all members of the PDP in the custody of the anti-graft agency, the EFCC, or charge them to Court without further delay.

Source: RipplesNigeria