Corruption: Buhari’s Presidency stinks – PDP

*Says Obono-Obla, HOSF fraud, tip of the iceberg 
Tunde Opalana, Abuja 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the Buhari Presidency is rotten 
and reeks of incurable corruption, festering up to every level.

According to the party, the shocking revelations of multi-dimensional sleazes, 
bribery, stealing and extortions in President Buhari’s Special 
Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property as well as in the 
office of the Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF) are just a tip of 
the iceberg of the earthshaking corruption deeply entrenched in the 
Buhari Presidency.

In a statement Friday by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said  Nigerians are aware of how the indicted Chairman of the 
Special Investigation Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla and the Head of Service, 
Winifred Oyo-Ita, enjoyed the protection of the cabal in the Buhari 
Presidency in its brazen burglary of the country’s  common patrimony.

The party recalled how it had severally raised the issue of 
humongous fraud going on in the Special Investigation Panel under 
Obono-Obla as well as the Chairman’s certificate forgery allegation, and 
how President Buhari condoned him and refused to take immediate action.

“The Buhari Presidency should therefore know that Nigerians are not 
carried away by this new attempt to hoodwink them through the usual 
holier than thou script.

“If President Buhari is indeed serious about exposing corruption, he 
should immediately allow a system-wide probe into the activities of his 
administration in the last four years, particularly the trillions of 
naira sleazes in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, where he was 
minister.

“The PDP demands that President Buhari allows an inquest into the stolen 
N9 trillion as detailed in the leaked NNPC memo, the reported stealing 
of N1.1 trillion worth of crude by interests connected to the All 
Progressives Congress (APC) as well as alleged diversion of billions of 
naira meant for security and social welfare in our country.

“Our party now expects President Buhari to allow an investigation into 
the revelation by the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, that the N500bn Social 
Investment Programme and the N16bn Mosquito Net Project of his 
administration were diverted to private purses.

” This is in addition to persons close to him, who as former ministers and 
former governors are facing corruption charges in various panels and 
courts, including a former minister indicted in the National 
Broadcasting Commission (NBC) N2.5 billion fraud case.

“Furthermore, the PDP asks President Buhari Presidency to speak out on 
the allegations in public space that Obono-Obla’s investigation 
activities at the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF), which the 
Presidency cabal is desperate to conceal, is what is being punished”, the party stated.

More over, the PDP held that now that President Buhari appears resolved 
to take the right step to investigate Obono-Obla’s certificate forgery 
scandal, it has also become incumbent on him to purge his conscience by 
owning up on his own certificate saga.