The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Uche Secondus, on Friday threatened to sue the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, over allegation of corruption against him.
Responding to the challenge of the PDP that the Presidency should name those alleged to have looted the treasury under PDP administration, Mohammed had at a press briefing, accused Secondus of corruptly receiving N200 million from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA).
He listed other alleged looters as including former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh and founder of Raypower radio station.
But reacting to the allegation in a statement issued by his spokesman, Mr. Ike Abonyi, on Friday in Abuja, Secondus said Mohammed should be ready to establish his allegations in court immediately.
Secondus said the allegation was a plot to damage his reputation and distract the PDP.
“For the purposes of some gullible public, Prince Secondus never collected any money from the NSA under any guise,” the statement reads.
Also, the PDP has reacted to the list of alleged looters released by Lai Mohammed.
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According to the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party would soon begin to uncover all the looters hiding in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ologbondiyan said the list released by Mohammed was “hollow and laughable,” as it did not include those in APC.
Said Ologbondiyan: “The list put forward by the federal government as purported looters amounts to a cheap blackmail as none of those listed has been indicted or convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction or any panel of enquiry in our country.
“The federal government even included names of individuals who are not standing trial or under investigation for any act of corruption, as well as those who are not even PDP members. The Buhari-led federal government has manifested its frenzy by going after matters that are in court and in which none of the persons has been convicted, thus betraying their wickedness and desperation to mislead the public, the court and divert attention from the heavy looting involving their members.
“We are not in doubt that the individuals he has mentioned will take their legitimate stride and pursue appropriate action in the court. This is a government that is yet to account for $26 billion (N9 trillion) stolen through corrupt oil contracts in the NNPC, N1.1 trillion worth of crude diverted to service APC interests, N18 billion internally displaced persons (IDPs) intervention fund stolen by APC officials, including their former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, the N10 billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for which members of the Buhari cabal were indicted as well as the Mainagate, where the APC government recalled and reinstated an individual indicted for scam running into billions of naira.
“Since the APC has decided to draw this attack, we will no longer hold back but appropriately commence a serialisation of all looters hiding in APC and the presidency.”
