Lai Mohammed: blasts PDP

Nigeria’s ruling  All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to stop crying wolf anytime a member of the PDP is invited for questioning by the country’s anti-corruption agencies.

“Those who have nothing to fear must be willing to clear their names by honouring any invitation, and only the guilty needs be afraid. The PDP must stop being hysterical over such invitations which are not going to stop simply because the opposition has called a press conference to cry wolf where there is none,” the party’s national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said today.

The party was reacting to a statement made Sunday by the PDP accusing the APC government of being selective in its anti-corruption targets. The party dismissed the PDP argument as ‘worn-out’.

Rebutting  the  PDP accusation, the APC said the  Buhari Administration will not micro-manage the anti-corruption agencies.

The party said it was wrong for the PDP to accuse the APC-led Federal Government of unleashing the agencies against the opposition.

”The ceaseless cry of selective anti-corruption battle is a bogey invented by the PDP to intimidate the anti-corruption agencies, and it will not work. It is the PDP’s strategy to stifle the fight against corruption.

”How can the PDP claim to support the anti-graft battle when every time any of its members is called in for questioning, it runs to the media to shout that the battle is ‘selective’? Is it possible that anyone who is invited for questioning will not belong to a party, an ethnic group or a certain faith?” it queried.

APC said the anti-corruption agencies have a duty to investigate petitions sent to them, irrespective of who is involved, but noted that invitation for questioning is not the same as conviction.