Nigerians Cannot Forget How PDP Leaders Pocketed Soldiers’ Money – Presidency

The Presidency has said that Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry how leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party stole funds belonging to the Nigerian Army and other security outfits.
The Presidency, through Garba Shehu, the presidential adviser, said when PDP leaders rose from a meeting in Umuahia and condemned the Muhammadu Buhari administration, they forgot that the current administration has moved away from their years of profligacy.
In a statement titled “Issues from the PDP fantasy communique from Umuahia,” the Presidency said PDP’s communiqué from Umuahia is a “work of fiction.”
It added, “We cannot forget under PDP, the nation had an army full of phantom soldiers whose pay went to PDP politicians’ pockets while our under-resourced real soldiers died in the fight against terrorist insurgents and our international allies refused to supply Nigeria kit and military aid.”
Presidency said the hitherto demoralized army has been resourced adding “we have fighter jets from our partners, Boko Haram is being driven from every inch of Nigerian territory, and ISWA’s leader eliminated in a Nigerian airstrike.
“We cannot ignore how PDP politicians sought – and continue to seek – to inflame ethnic and religious tensions by refusing to even proffer a solution to the herder-farmer clashes which became most prevalent under their misrule.
“Today with APC in government, there are ranches on Federal land and in state land where there is the willingness to establish them. Clashes are reduced. Lives are saved, and livelihoods are enriched.”
It said it will always remind Nigerians how PDP politicians allegedly encouraged and exploited the black market in currency exchange to convert ill-gotten gains to foreign currency and undermine our national currency.
It accused the PDP leaders of spiriting their funds abroad in their billions and into foreign bank accounts.
“Today, with APC, we support our national currency; we have achieved self-sufficiency in rice and fertilizer production; we refuse to allow greedy politicians and businessmen to hide their money overseas, and instead build an economy here in Nigeria for all.
“We will always know how PDP politicians raided the NNPC, consistently failed to pay into the Federation Account and, in the last year of PDP misrule, $20 billion dollars was simply found “missing”.
“Today with APC, funds from NNPC are directly and transparently used to fund social and health programmes – such as COVID-19 response, the construction of roads, bridges and rail, and equipping of hospitals to cope with new and existing challenges.”
It added, that the PDP leaders who signed the Communique are people Nigerians cannot trust.