The National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bolaji Abdullahi has described Peoples Democratic Party’s criticism of the $1bn approved by the National Economic Council for the Boko Haram war as baseless and ridiculous. In a statement released to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, Abdullahi said the PDP was only being mischievous by claiming that the approved funds would be used for the prosecution of the 2019 general elections.
He explained that the governors' forum which approved the withdrawal of the funds had 11 PDP governors as members. He stressed that the statement of the PDP invariably means that governors under its platform are disloyal or were bewitched into supporting the approval.
“We can understand why it is easy for the PDP to arrive at its ludicrous allegation. A similar approval in excess of $2bn was granted to the PDP government when they were in power.
“We can understand why it is easy for the PDP to arrive at its ludicrous allegation. A similar approval in excess of $2bn was granted to the PDP government when they were in power. They knew what they did with the money. It is a classic case of a serial killer who sees even a table knife as a murder weapon.
“The PDP presided over a government that made it possible for money meant for weapons to be diverted into paying marabouts and all manner of political jobbers ahead of the 2015 elections. Therefore, the PDP thinks the same thing is about to happen. They have not realized that it is a new day and President Muhammadu Buhari will not play politics with money meant to protect the lives of innocent Nigerians or allow anyone to engage in such brigandage that Nigerians suffered under the PDP.”
On why the government was withdrawing huge funds to fight Boko Haram which has been reportedly defeated, Abdullahi said
“There is, therefore, no contradiction in saying that Boko Haram is technically defeated and saying that more weapons and training are needed for our military and the military of neighbouring countries whose cooperation is necessary to finally rid our countries of the menace of Boko Haram.”
