The All Progressives Congress (APC), Plateau State chapter, has described as depressing the corrupt reputation of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which recently joined in accusing Governor Simon Lalong, of corruption in the State.
The State Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bashir Musa Sati, made the assertion in a statement Thursday in Jos.
The PDP, had supported an allegation raised against Lalong, by the Plateau Rescue Front (PRF), a group that said it is made up of members of the ruling APC.
But the APC said: “It is rather depressing and laughable for the PDP whose reputation for corruption is legendry to accuse the Lalong administration of taking huge loans without constructing a single lane of road in the state when it is obvious that the PDP looted the monies they claimed to have spent on projects during their years in power only to leave the state with huge contractual obligations which the Lalong administration is committed to addressing.”
It asked; “have they forgotten that the EFCC is still battling to trace billions allegedly carted away by some officials in the last PDP administration.”
The state APC said, “Clearly, the Plateau Rescue Front, cannot be described as stakeholders of the APC as they are not known to the party.
“They do not even qualify as members of the caucus of the APC. Rather, they are definitely fronting for the PDP hiding under pseudo acronyms so as to engineer the kind of distraction and confusion that is bedeviling the PDP ever since they fell out of power.
“If they were members of the APC and truly concerned, they would have availed themselves of the party’s structure to make their case or approach government directly. Besides, their claims are bogus, wild and unsubstantiated,” the APC said.
It said the accusation, canvassed by the nauseating ranting of the factional spokesperson of the nearly non-existent Plateau State PDP, John T. Akans, was nothing than lies, that their party was vindicated over the “massive corruption and incompetence of the Lalong administration”.
The APC said, they are not surprised that the factional spokesperson of the PDP has nothing with which to attack the Government of Simon Lalong, than adopting a so-called public letter by an unknown and mischievous group as the basis of his sermon and homily.
It said this vindicates the fact that the PDP is in total disarray in the state and on the verge of total collapse where it only feels that its survival can only be guaranteed when it de-markets the APC or attack Governor Simon Lalong with lies and fabrications.
The APC said “the PDP should not have forgotten the retinue of the uncompleted projects it bequeathed to the APC which Governor Lalong, has not followed the tradition of jettisoning projects of preceding administrations, but decided to complete in the general interest of the people.”
