Respond to US corruption, human rights charges, PDP tells APC

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to quickly respond to the damning report by the United States government, which further exposed the festering corruption, impunity, gross violation of rights and killings under the watch of the Buhari Presidency.

The PDP also called on United States President Donald Trump to note the findings in the report by the US Department of States and review his earlier invitation to President Buhari, until the issues raised are addressed.

The party said the report by the US Department of State has vindicated its stand that the Buhari-led APC government is “overtly and inherently corrupt, vengeful and has been engaging in smear campaign against the opposition to divert public attention from its atrocities”.

Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesperson in a statement on Tuesday said the report “directly indicted the APC-led Federal Government of official corruption, secretiveness, high-handedness, restriction of personal freedom and rights, executive influence on the judiciary, wanton arrests, detention and persecution of opposition as well as extra judicial and arbitrary killing of citizens by state controlled security forces.

“The report also directly discredited President Buhari’s fight against corruption as targeted against opposition members while government officials and APC members, openly indicted of corruption, especially those close to Mr. President, are not prosecuted.

” From the report, the world can now see that the PDP has not been raising false alarm on the unbearable savagery and massive corruption of the APC administration, which has proven to be the worst in the history of our country.

“The world has now known why the APC-led Federal Government has been fixated at silencing opposition voices using the tyrannical instruments of intimidation, arrest, detention, trumped-up charges and media trial while emasculating free speech and press freedom in our country, all designed to hide their atrocities from the world.”

The party stressed this was the reason why Nigerians are leaving their country in droves to other parts of the world even at the peril of slavery and death adding that under President Buhari and the APC, the country is in great pain.

“Our constitution appears to have been technically suspended. Citizens now live in fear; bloodletting by marauders and extra judicial killings have become the order of the day; billions of naira meant for the rehabilitation of victims of insurgency are daily frittered by government officials while fundamental human rights have become essential commodities.”, the party alleged.

The PDP was however, surprised that the Buhari Presidency has suddenly become dumb in the face of obviously overwhelming allegations, believing that the tide will flow by.

It, therefore challenged the Presidency and the APC to immediately respond to all allegations raised in the report, because they are weighty issues that cannot be dismissed with a wave of the hand.