The Presidency has responded to the letter written by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Uche Secondus, to the United Nations Secretary-General, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari, saying, the war on graft “is not an attack on human rights.”
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement in Abuja that the letter confirmed PDP as a bad loser, desperate for another chance after it was kicked out for failing the nation and its people.
Shehu said: “The war against corruption, for which many more politicians may soon be docked, cannot be misrepresented as an attack on human rights, and Mr. Secondus should not try to mislead the UN. “Nigerian politicians at all levels have been used to dispensing with state funds in whatever manner they please, and to have someone, an administration, finally saying, “No.
It doesn’t matter how big or important you think you are; the law must come against you…” That is not something they are used to at all. “For the PDP, as has now emerged, national security was the major source of their funding.
“The PDP chairman and all other politicians, against whom the country’s anti-corruption agencies have on-going investigations, should be assured that it is only a matter of time before the law catches up with them, and makes them pay for the grief their mismanagement of the past has caused and is still causing Nigerians.
“Nigerians suffered because of the poison sowed by the PDP. If the public were privy to some of the facts and figures on corruption that President Buhari and the anti-corruption agencies have, they would understand the passion that drives the determination to nail these callous men and stop them in their corrupt tracks.”
“Regarding the accusation that President Buhari is behind the spate of herdsmen and farmer clashes in the Middle Belt of Nigeria, all we will say is that it as an embarrassing charge that the PDP would make, conveying an allegation from the beer parlours of Nigeria to an international body like the UN. “The PDP certainly has no shred of evidence to make such an allegation.
These are comments driven by tribalism and that age-old trick of balkanisation in a bid to score political points. This should not surprise anyone given the politics of anger, violence and polarisation that are the stock-in-trade of the PDP,” the Presidency added.
Shehu said, “the various lengths which the president had gone to end the spate of killings, such as mobilising state resources against the attackers, approving the setting up of new police and army formations in the affected areas, and the recruitment of thousands into the police and other arms of the military, are a few of the several steps taken which a more reasonable opposition would acknowledge.”
