N45m nomination form: PDP accuses Presidency of round-tripping

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Presidency of round-tripping the N45 million claimed to have been contributed by a shadowy group to buy the All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination form for President Muhammadu Buhari.
The party alleged that President Buhari’s inability, as “Mr.
Integrity” to explain the registration status, membership and source of funding of the shadowy group exposes the charade in the President’s latest failed endorsement stunt.
The party was reacting to purchase of the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms worthy N45m by Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network (NCAN).
The form was formally presented to President Buhari on Tuesday at the Villa by the group led by Barrister Musa Sanusi.
Describing it as a stunt in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP dismissed the seemingly sanctimonious disposition of “Mr Integrity” and urged him and the APC to come clean on the actual source of the fund for the purchase of the forms.
“The PDP notes as laughable, that the Buhari Presidency does not realize that such stunts have become out-worn and cannot sway opinion in a country with citizens as enlightened as Nigerians.
“Most Nigerians already know how some officials at the Buhari presidency, made up of corrupt individuals, racketeers and certificate forgers, hurriedly assembled the group and mobilised them with N45 million for the APC presidential nomination form, which was hiked to scare away other contestants.
“What Mr.
President’s handlers are hiding from him is the fact that Nigerians do not believe the falsehood that a set of individuals, facing the challenges of abysmally low purchasing power, put together a wholesome N45m to buy him a form”.
The party challenged the APC and President Buhari to be forthright by letting Nigerians know the true identity of list of individual contributors, amount contributed by these shadowy individual members and in fact make public the proof of registration and membership of the group (NCAN).
The party also challenged “President Buhari to make public the official correspondences of the 12 million members of the Rice Farmers Association, members of the Fertilizer Producers Association and the members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association who, he claimed, offered to buy nomination form for him.
“Moreover, the PDP described as unpresidential, the outbursts credited to President Buhari against those who left the APC noting that such was an unwarranted attack on innocent Nigerians whose only offence is that they chose to abandon his derelict sinking ship, APC”, the statement concluded.