The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has criticized President-elect Bola Tinubu for his recent statement in Port Harcourt about his administration’s intention to tackle corruption, particularly in the public sector.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the PDP has called Tinubu’s statement “an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians.”
During his visit to Port Harcourt at the invitation of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike to commission several projects, Tinubu promised to take a tough stance against corruption. However, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, has asserted that Tinubu lacks the competence to speak on matters of corruption.
Addressing journalists at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja, Ologunagba said, “It is ludicrous that an individual who has been widely alleged to be an enabler and beneficiary of corruption can attempt to put himself forward to Nigerians as a champion of anti-corruption. Of course, corruption cannot fight corruption.
“The PDP and indeed all sensible Nigerians are alarmed, scandalised and embarrassed by the recent claim 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.
“This statement by Senator Tinubu is completely sacrilegious and an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians, having regard to his records of alleged corruption and having been described variously as an embodiment of corruption in his public life.
“It is in the public domain that as Governor of Lagos State, Senator Tinubu promoted and institutionalised corruption as an act of governance. It is on record that Senator Tinubu is alleged to be deeply involved in the infamous cases involving Alpha Beta Consulting…”
The party called on the judiciary to be wary of attempts “by the APC and its presidential candidate to patronise them in the course of the discharge of their constitutional duties as impartial arbiter, particularly in the pending petition before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.”
