Alleged fraud: Arrest Tinubu now, PDP charges EFCC

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate and prosecute the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over allegations of tax fraud.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party warned that “failure of the EFCC to invite and question Asiwaju Tinubu over an alleged N160 billion tax fraud by a company linked to him will not only suggest that the EFCC has become corrupt under the Buhari Presidency, but also exposes the level of rot in the APC administration.
“Nigerians can now see how the same Ibrahim Magu-led EFCC, which rushes to pounce on, arrest and lock up innocent Nigerians, particularly, perceived political opponents of President Buhari, without investigation, has practically gone frozen and toothless because a member of the APC cabal is involved.
“Does it not smack of hypocrisy that President Buhari, who boasted that he was going to jail more looters, has been looking the other way, while Presidency officials suppress investigations since whistle blowers alerted that Alpha Beta, a company linked with his party leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, allegedly swindled Nigerians to the tune of a whopping N160 billion in tax fraud? “Is it not equally hypocritical that under the same President Buhari’s watch, where the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has threatened to block the bank accounts of tax evaders, a leader of his party had been dragged before the EFCC, yet Mr President is pretending to be unaware?”, the PDP querried.
It challenges the APC-led federal government to show that it is not complicit of corruption by allowing to the investigation and prosecution of Alpha Beta, in an open court, just as his government has been harrassing the members of the opposition, as well as perceived opponents.
Also, it charged President Buhari to respond to the alleged stealing of N9 trillion at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under his watch; the alleged N1.4 trillion oil subsidy fraud involving officials at the Presidency; the alleged diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil in 2017 by APC interests; alleged stealing of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) funds; the alleged stealing of over N25 billion National Health Insurance Fund (NHIS), which investigation was stalled by the Presidency, among others for which his Presidency has practically turned into a citadel of iniquity and corruption.