Progressives Congress (APC) National Campaign Council for the Edo
governorship election, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, as a barefaced
treasury looter, who has no moral rectitude to speak on corruption.
A statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the party said, “the PDP
described as a huge irony that Governor Ganduje, who has become a butt
of national shame after being seen on viral video stuffing his robe with
gratification in foreign currency, to accuse the PDP of corruption
intentions in the Edo state governorship election.
“It is a paradox that an individual who has earned himself the
disgraceful public sobriquet of “gandollar”, after being caught
collecting gratification, would attempt to accuse others of having the
intention of looting the treasury of a state.
“The PDP points out that it is only in a party like the APC, under a
Buhari Presidency, that such a tarnished individual can be selected to
speak in public, let alone lead a governorship election campaign.
“Apparently, Governor Ganduje and other APC leaders are so used to
looting public treasuries that such is his first mental direction after
his inauguration to lead the Edo governorship campaign.
“Governor Ganduje has further confirmed the real intention of the APC,
which is to use their morally embattled candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu (of
course, birds of the same feathers flock together) for their desperate
effort to regain access to Edo state treasury after Governor Godwin
Obaseki liberated the state from the stranglehold of APC
treasury-looting godfathers.
“Our party invites Governor Ganduje to note that there are no free
dollars for him and other APC leaders to loot in Edo state.
“Under the PDP, the resources of Edo state, and indeed other PDP states,
belong to the people and not to any political cabal and their
godfathers.
“Of course, this is why the people of Edo state are solidly behind
Governor Obaseki for firmly resisting APC looters.
“Moreover, Governor Ganduje, with his infamous “gandollar” video, is no
match to the Chairman of the PDP National Campaign Council for the Edo
election, Governor Nyesom Wike.
“Whereas Governor Wike is a highly respected, upright, honest,
transparent, people-based and development-driven leader, who is firmly
in touch with the people of Edo state and enjoys their confidence and
trust, Governor Ganduje, on the other hand, represent a leadership that
is fraught with dishonesty, corruption, non-performance and public
shame.
“The PDP, therefore, counsels Governor Ganduje and the APC to quietly
perish the thoughts of looting Edo state treasury like they are doing in
APC controlled states, as the people of Edo state will humiliate them in
the September 19 election.