OIL THEFT: What We Had Found Shocked Us – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC)
stated that it was shocked by huge and monumental corruption under the
previous administration.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is
the party’s national publicity secretary, said this on
Thursday reacting to the Buhari’s speech that some officials of the
immediate past administration were involved in stealing one million barrel of
crude oil daily.
He said: “We are not just shocked
but taken aback by what we have found. We have always known that there was
monumental corruption under the previous regime but we did not know it was this
huge. Anybody who calls the questions we are asking a witch-hunt is a person
who excuses fraud, and again, when we were raising the alarm over this level of
corruption they were engaged in, they said we were crying wolf where there was
none. They said it never happened. They even went as far as manufacturing records
to cover up. We must ask questions so that whoever is coming into government
will know that it cannot be business as usual and that he/she must be ready to
answer questions after they leave office.”
However, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) stated that the allegations must be proved in court.
The PDP’s publicity secretary
Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo said: “Like I told you before, the PDP provided a
transparent leadership for this country for the 16 years we were in power. It
was the PDP that established the anti-corruption agencies we are celebrating
today, like the EFCC and the ICPC. All we ask is that any probe of the last
administration should not be used as an avenue to villify people who served
this country diligently.”
