The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
\nto stop sermonizing and parading like a saint until he answers to the
\nN33 billion corruption allegation as exposed by the House of
\nRepresentatives.<\/p>\n
The party said in a statement signed by its spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan
\nthat the Vice President owes it as a personal moral burden, both as a
\npreacher and Professor of law, to directly explain how the fund meant for
\nthe wellbeing of Nigerians suffering in the Northeast, was mismanaged
\nunder his supervision, instead of the lame attempts to dismiss the
\nallegation and divert public attention from the scandal.<\/p>\n
Nigerians were thoroughly appalled to learn, from the House of
\nRepresentatives, how Prof. Osinbajo, as Acting President, in June 2017,
\nunilaterally pulled N5.8 billion, from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of
\nthe Federation, purportedly for emergency intervention on food in the
\nNorth East, which has now turned scandalous.<\/p>\n
Prof. Osinbajo should explain how, according to findings by the House of
\nRepresentatives, all the six states of the Northeast failed to receive
\nthe emergency intervention for food security, for which a major part of
\nthe money was claimed to have been expended, under his direct
\nsupervision as Chairman of Board of the National Emergency Management
\nAgency (NEMA).<\/p>\n
What has Prof. Osinbajo to say on the revelation at the public hearing
\nconducted by the House of Representatives that there was no evidence the
\nWorld Food Programme (WFP) received the 5000 metric tons of rice, which
\nNEMA claimed to have bought and donated to WFP for distribution to
\nvictims of insurgency in the region?<\/p>\n
What has our Vice President to say to the report indicating that four of
\nthe companies that supplied food items to the region financed their
\nprojects through N2bn they each received as loan from the Central Bank
\nof Nigeria (CBN)?<\/p>\n
What is his answer to the huge allegations in the public domain that
\nbulk of the money meant for suffering Nigerians in the Northeast was
\ndiverted to private pockets of key All Progressives Congress (APC) and
\nthe Presidency cabal to finance their wasteful lifestyle?<\/p>\n
The PDP is privy to the frantic effort by agents of the Presidency and
\nthe APC to arm-twist and intimidate the House of Representatives to
\nabort its investigation and to ensure that the report does not see the
\nlight of day<\/p>\n
If Prof. Osinbajo had no ulterior intentions, why did he pull the money
\nfrom the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation without recourse to
\nthe statutory appropriation of the National Assembly?<\/p>\n
The PDP holds that the action of the Vice President in unilaterally
\napproving the release of the money to NEMA, where he also presides as
\nthe Chairman of Board is completely self-serving and ostensibly
\nconceived and executed in corrupt intentions.<\/p>\n
Instead of answering to the allegation, Prof. Osinbajo is employing
\nrhetoric to divert attention, claiming that his actions are covered by
\nhis apparent abuse of Section 43 of the Procurement Act.<\/p>\n
We invite the Vice President to note that Section 43 of the Procurement
\nAct deals with the emergency duties of a procuring entity and\u00a0 not the
\nprocesses of drawing funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the
\nFederation which is covered by the Constitution. As such, there is no
\nway he can justify his actions under any of our laws.<\/p>\n
The Vice President should therefore advice himself properly by
\nresponding to the huge corruption questions and stop his unnecessary
\nposturing.<\/p>\n
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