Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, said it was unfortunate that anti-corruption agency, Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) founded by the party’s administration to tackle corruption had “turned itself into a pawn in the hand of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”
The chairman, in statement through his Senior Assistant to Media, Ike Abonyi, noted that “there’s no need to be talking about a case pending in court in the newspapers; if the government has anything to say, they should file it before the court as demanded.” The statement revealed further that “the National Chairman’s office is aware of a grand design by the government to stop at anything to tarnish his image; but he said that the move would fail.
” Secondus challenged the government “to come out with the vouchers with which he was said to have signed, adding that such signature would also be subjected to forensic analysis.” He said: “I never collected any money from anywhere. I didn’t ask anyone to collect money for me as well and I didn’t sign any voucher to collect any money. It is pure blackmail which will never work. “If they are cooking up anything, with the aim of blackmailing me, it will fail.
I know that the task of uprooting this non-performing government would be horrendous. But God is always on the side of the people. I can understand the frustration of a party that enjoyed enormous goodwill from Nigerians three years ago but got it squandered with its ‘nepotic’ and insensitive administration.”
It also warned that “no amount of cheap blackmail and treachery will return the APC from the exit gate where Nigerians already pushed them to, awaiting 2019.” “The departure date for the APC has already been announced and the flight schedule would not be cancelled, because Nigerians cannot wait to see them off. “PDP is not oblivious of the fact that this government does not believe in court because they see rule of law as antithetical to their own agenda and understanding of democracy but noted emphatically, that truth must prevail over lies and propaganda especially as the populace have cried out to God for a rescue.
