The
Peoples Democratic Party, Kola Ologbodiyan, has accused Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo of not being bold enough to mention names of those he claimed stole
public funds.
Mr. Ologbondiyan said the vice president was
only fond of bandying figures he cannot trace to a personality in the PDP.
His reaction followed Mr. Osinbajo’s speech at
the colloquium organised to mark the 66th birthday of a leader of the All
Progressives’Congress (APC) in Lagos on Thursday.
Citing differences in cash releases to three
ministries as example, Mr. Osinbajo said the looting that took place in the
last five years of PDP administration cost the nation dear hence, he would
continue to talk about corruption in PDP’s administration.
“The corruption of the previous five years
destroyed the economy,” he said.
While featuring on a programme on Channels
Television, Thursday evening, Mr. Ologbondiyan cautioned the vice president to
either “keep quiet” or present a list of PDP members who amassed wealth through
illegal means.
“We want to caution the Vice-President that he
should stop bandying figures. Anytime the Vice-President has the opportunity to
face the camera, he begins to announce figures that he cannot support,” he
said.
“Our advice to him is that as a professor of
law, he knows the pathway to follow when you accuse somebody of corruption. We
challenge him to stop bandying figures but he should mention names of those who
he claimed corrupted themselves. And if he cannot mention their names and he
cannot charge them to court and he cannot cause their arrest and he cannot even
list these people, he should keep quiet.”
“Why can’t they come out and say in the last
three years, we have done these, we have done that? All they do is to come back
and say the last 10 years of the PDP, last five years of PDP. Is that what
Nigerians are asking?
“As far as we are concerned in PDP, until the
Vice-President comes out clean and says that your party members by so names
corrupted themselves to the tune of so amount, you don’t expect us as a party
to begin to respond.”
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