The People’s Democratic Party has criticised Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, for saying in Port Harcourt that his administration would be tough on corruption, especially in the public sector, calling it “an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.”
When Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, invited Tinubu to Port Harcourt to inaugurate some projects, Tinubu made the commitment.
In response, the PDP claimed that the President-elect lacked the expertise to speak on the subject of corruption through Debo Ologunagba, its national publicity secretary.
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Speaking to reporters at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Ologunagba declared: “It is absurd for someone who has been widely accused of being a facilitator and beneficiary of corruption to try to present himself to Nigerians as a champion of anti-corruption. Inevitably, corruption cannot defeat corruption.
The recent declaration by the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the commissioning of some judiciary projects in Rivers State, that he will fight corruption in the country, has alarmed, scandalised, and embarrassed the PDP as well as all sane Nigerians.
Given his history of alleged corruption and how he has been variously described as the embodiment of corruption in his public life, Senator Tinubu’s statement is completely sacrilegious and an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.
“Senator Tinubu’s promotion and institutionalisation of corruption as a form of governance as governor of Lagos State are matters of public record. Senator Tinubu is alleged to have been heavily involved in the infamous cases involving Alpha Beta Consulting, according to public records.
In order to fulfil their constitutional obligations as an impartial arbiter, the judiciary should be wary of any attempts “by the APC and its presidential candidate to patronise them in the course of the discharge of their constitutional duties, particularly in the pending petition before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal,” the party warned.
