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PDP challenges Buhari to speak on N378 bn NLNG scandal - Edoman - 11-12-2018
PDP challenges Buhari to speak on N378 bn NLNG scandal
November 12th, 2018
By Myke Uzendu, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari
and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak out on how N378 billion proceed from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas dividends was allegedly siphoned by the Buhari Presidency cabal, under sleazy oil subsidy deals.
The party said Nigerians were startled by revelations of how the funds from the NLNG, an agency under President Buhari’s direct supervision as Minister of petroleum, was secretly lifted and spent without the
appropriation of the National Assembly.
According to a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Kola Ologbondiyan on Monday, available intelligence shows that the Presidency cabal cornered the money under the guise of subsidy payments but allegedly diverted a huge part of it to members of the cabal and some key APC leaders, which they used to finance their wasteful lifestyle, including acquiring posh property within and outside the country.
He said, “If there was no ulterior agenda; if the money was actually meant for payment of subsidy, why was it drawn and purportedly spent without recourse to the constitutionally required approval of the National Assembly and other due process procedures under our laws?”
The PDP notes that such humongous corruption and stealing of trillions of naira in the oil and gas sector, which is under President Buhari’s purview, as Minister of Petroleum, is directly responsible for the
biting economic recession and its attendant high cost of living, acute hunger and starvation, poor living standard, dilapidated infrastructure, escalated violence and high mortality rate in the country in the last three and half years.
The PDP challenges President Buhari to speak out on the monstrous corruption in his Presidency, which has also failed to
offer explanations for the alleged siphoning of over N10 trillion from various sleazes, particularly in the oil and gas sector.
They urges the National Assembly to immediately open an inquest into the N378 billion NLNG scandal and unravel who actually authorized the withdrawal, the beneficiaries, as well as what each APC leader got from this huge scam, with a view to exposing them and
recovering the fund in the national interest.
The Authority