The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Ondo Governorship Election has described as self-indicting the statement by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state that he submitted the account of the spending of COVID-19 response funds to an Abuja based Non-Governmental Organization.
PDP in a statement by it National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondoyan, Monday, berated the Ondo state governor for allegedly “seeking to drag in an NGO as a cover to evade answering to queries put to him by the Ondo people.
The statement noted that Ondo indigenes demand a detailed public account of the COVID-19 intervention funds following allegations of diversions by officials of his self-serving administration and urge Akeredolu to account to the people.
The opposition party added that ” it is sickening that Akeredolu seeks to confuse the citizens by referring to a bank account he claimed to have sent to an NGO, which provided no proofs of actual item purchased as well as the actual delivery of materials and services for payments.
Continuing, the statement read “the invite Nigerians and the Ondo people to note that Akeredolu’s self-serving administration has failed to account to the people on the management of the fund, having failed to show the term of expenditures, approving details; quantity and quality of products and services paid for; as well as confirmation of actual delivery for payments made.
“The response by Governor Akeredolu has only muddled up statutory financial accounting system by referring the people of Ondo to an NGO in Abuja.
“Our campaign therefore invites the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately commence an investigation into the handling of the Ondo COVID-19 funds now that Governor Akeredolu has failed to give proper account as demanded by the Ondo people”.
