The Presidency last night in Abuja, described the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as an ill-wind that should be rejected in 2019 elections.
The Presidency in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, accused the PDP of what it also described as irresponsible lies.
The statement read: “The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has continued spreading lies about the Buhari administration in the mistaken assumption that its toga of corruption will dissipate if it succeeded in black painting every other person as corrupt.
“The strategy is to make corruption appear as normative and that everyone is equally involved.
“They think by so doing, Nigerians will forgive them for their sins. This is a huge mistake. The PDP has become an ill-wind on the country today and the elections next year present the citizens an excellent opportunity to save the country from it.
“We can’t imagine a sane organization shamelessly telling Nigerians that President Buhari is looting, as they themselves did of the recovered loot, the $322 million lately recovered from the Abacha family. This is an irresponsible lie.
“The $322 million recovered is being used to make the Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, of a monthly amount of N5,000 to more than 300,000 poor homes across the nation under the Social Investment Program introduced by the Buhari administration.
“This is in line with the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the governments of Nigeria and Switzerland as a condition for releasing the funds.
“As part of the MoU, the World Bank is monitoring the application of the funds. It is also important that the World Bank has equally given an additional facility to support the on-going cash transfers.
“Nigerians are, hereby, advised to be watchful of what comes out of the opposition, not to be misled into voting for a party that sees nothing wrong with corruption and would rather have everyone drenched in its colors, as they irretrievably are.”