The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, challenged the Presidency to speak out on the reported arrest of President Muhammadu Buhari’s known confidant, Nasir Danu, at the Heathrow Airport, United Kingdom, for alleged passport scam and money laundering.
In a statement made available to news in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary , Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the Party insisted that the silence by the Presidency on the matter since the report of Danu’s arrest and deportation “is self-indicting, particularly given his reported confessions and alleged links to persons closely related to Mr President.”
According to the statement,” this is in addition to apprehensions in the public space that he was caught while allegedly ferrying stolen currencies for persons said to be close to the Presidency.”
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The party stated that the Buhari Presidency must also speak out on the huge scandal and allegations that, Danu’s had been in the business of connecting the said close relation of the President with many oil contractors for alleged underhand deals through which billions of naira got frittered.
It noted that “this is beside allegations of being a front for scandalous contracts running into billions of naira from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, among other government agencies.”
It also cautioned the Buhari Presidency to perish the thoughts of concealing the scandal as it was already in the public domain with Nigerians demanding for investigations.
The Party, therefore, charged the Buhari Presidency to immediately order an open investigation into the matter and expose those involved in the scandalous racket.
“Nigerians can now further see how the Buhari Presidency stinks. Our party, therefore, insists that for a government that always orchestrates claims of integrity and zero tolerance for corruption, it behoves on the Presidency to come clean as well as order an investigation into this huge allegation,” the Party stated