The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Thursday said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will leave no kobo in Nigeria’s treasury if it wins the 2023 presidential election.
Mohammed labelled the PDP as a party of looters and said it will be impossible for the former ruling party to change from its habit of looting the public treasury if it ever has access to power.
The minister, while reacting to reports that some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP had returned ₦122.4 million paid into their accounts by the main opposition party leader, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Arusha, Tanzania, said: “if a man can steal from himself, he will steal without any restrain from other people.
“The problem is that PDP will never change and like they say, a leopard will never change its spots.
“When PDP lost elections in 2015, they admitted that they had learnt their lessons, but obviously, they have learnt nothing.
“God forbid, if they ever have access to public purse again, they will leave no kobo there.
“We know what we met when we assumed office in 2015, we are still wailing from it.
“We hope Nigerians have now seen from this scandal the intention of PDP if they ever have access to public treasury’’.
Reports indicated that the PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, allegedly paid a huge sum of money to the NWC members after the party’s primaries. It was alleged that the money was from the more than ₦10 billion realised by the party from nomination fees paid by aspirants.
Mohammed said certain questions should be raised from the development, including, what informed the payment in the first place and if it was the first time such money was paid.
He said the party should also be questioned on the source of the money and whether it was from the slush fund it had in its possession.
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