The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the approved withdrawal of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account to aid the war against insurgency in the North East. In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party berated the All Progressives Congress led administration for lying to Nigerians earlier that Boko Haram had been defeated.
The statement called on the President to apologize to Nigerians for lying to them on the real state of the fight against insurgency in the region.
“Nigerians would recall that the APC-led Federal Government had claimed that it has since defeated the insurgents.
“If it would take a billion dollar from a nation’s savings to kill what they long claimed dead, then we challenge APC government to come clean and tell Nigerians the whole truth.
“The era of lies and propaganda is long gone and Nigerians now know the truth. The Federal Government must be held accountable and stopped from any move to fritter away our national savings.
“We therefore call on the National Assembly to interrogate this proposed disbursement and subject it to a thorough but rapid interrogation.
“By accepting the $1bn for fighting insurgency, the APC-led Federal Government has admitted that it lied when it announced that it has defeated the insurgents. They should therefore apologize to Nigerians for giving them a false sense of security, resulting in their vulnerability to attacks by terrorists.”
