The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) has asserted that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has finally exposed President Muhammadu Buhari “as patron of corruption and that his much-touted anti-corruption fight is just a ruse.”

Spokesman of the campaign organization, Kola Ologbodiyan, observed in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday that Oshiomhole, by his “confession” at the Edo state APC.

Presidential rally on Thursday, that “once you join the APC, your sins are forgiven”, has directly confirmed that the APC is a sanctuary oftreasury looters and that President Buhari’s fight against corruption ismere racketeering.”

The PPCO said: “With this revelation by Oshiomhole, who is also overburdened by huge corruption allegations for which he had to flee the country last year, it is now established that the APC is a party of thieves and thrivesonly on deception, lies and propaganda while swimming in an ocean ofcorruption.

“The fact that President Buhari, who parades as Mr Integrity, has notreprimanded Oshiomhole but openly relished the assertion, confirms hismoral entanglement, accommodation and valid endorsement of corruptpractices by APC members and Presidency cabal.

“Nigerians are all witnesses to how President Buhari became an advocatefor Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje over the leaked tape, showinghim allegedly collecting bribe from contractors.

“They have also seen how Mr President, even as supposed Mr Integrity, surrounds himself with corrupt persons and how most members of hisCampaign Organization, as individuals, have been indicted forcorruption.

“This is even more worrisome given allegations that the Buhari Presidencyand the APC are directly benefiting from the funds being looted undertheir watch, including the N9 trillion detailed in the leaked NNPC memo;the N33 billion North East intervention fund, the repatriated $322million stolen under the guise of sharing to the poor, the over N25billion stolen from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), theover N1.4 trillion stolen through sleazy subsidy regimes among others.”

The PPCO, therefore, stressed that given this damning revelation byOshiomhole, President Buhari no longer has the moral rectitude to seekre-election after he has betrayed Nigerians by failing to uphold thesanctity of the war against corruption as one of the major planks of hisre-election campaign.

“Moreover, Oshiomhole and his co-travellers in his corruption rollercoaster are reminded that they will soon lose their cover and definitely face trial for their atrocities as Nigerians have resolved to vote outtheir grand patron, President Buhari from office on February 16, 2019,” it stated.

The PPCO urged the EFCC to commence the investigation andprosecution of members of the APC campaign council as well as newentrants into their party as their factional National Chairman hadalready confessed that the party is a club of looters.

•Sourced from a Tribune report