PRESIDENCY REACTS TO PDP’S APOLOGY TO NIGERIANS
PRESIDENCY REACTS TO
PDP’S APOLOGY TO NIGERIANS
The
Presidency has warned Nigerians to be cautious of the recent apology offered by
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Describing
the apology as “less-than-honest, the presidency said it was borne out of PDP’s
desperation to regain power.
This
was part of a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Friday.
Shehu
said there were heavy moral duties that go with apologies if the culprits want
to be taken seriously.
He
said, “The PDP is desperate to recapture power because it no longer has
unhindered access to national resources for private uses and its apology should
be seen in this context.
“The
PDP has not even acknowledged the fact that it plundered the national economy ,
and for a party that dismissed the anti-corruption war as a political witch
hunt , it is impossible to believe that its public apology comes from the
bottom of the heart.
“Even
desperate thieves apologise because they are caught and not because they are
incapable of repeating the crime if they had another opportunity.
“We
believe that the PDP should not only apologise for the imposition of
candidates, and the culture of impunity, but must also come clean and
acknowledge that they participated in large scale corruption and massive
diversions of public funds to private pockets while poverty was ravaging the
ordinary Nigerians.
“We
challenge individual PDP leaders to publicly and voluntarily tell Nigerians how
much they stole and then agree to cough up their illegal acquisitions of wealth
if they want their apology to be taken seriously.
“Apology
borne by desperation to recapture power without a desire to admit how much they
stole and the reluctance to return the loot is morally hollow.”
