By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Henry
Umoru
ABUJA—The All Progressives Congress (APC)
yesterday, faulted what it described as a massive
campaign to stop the recovery of an estimated
N13.972 trillion allegedly squandered by the
immediate past administration.
The N13.972trn as computed by Vanguard was
the summation of funds allegedly unaccounted
for, withheld or allegedly stolen mostly from the
oil sector.
The party said in a statement, yesterday, that the
campaign to stop the recovery of the funds would
be a total disservice to probity and public
decency.
President Jonathan
The APC’s assertion was immediately rebuffed by
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
which described the APC claim as reckless,
irresponsible and highly provocative.
The PDP said APC’s display of imaginary figures
was a desperate effort by the ruling party to
achieve a heinous agenda against the Goodluck
Jonathan administration.
The PDP also yesterday, appealed to Nigerians
and the international community to appeal to
President Muhaamdu Buhari to guard against
what the party claimed as the seeming
determination of the government to derail the
country’s democracy. Citing what it claimed was
an attempt to stifle democratic institutions, the
opposition party said that Buhari was showing
himself not to be a born again democrat as he
had earlier claimed.
The APC which described as mind-boggling, the
massive looting of the nation’s treasury by public
officials during the Jonathan administration,
vowed that nothing but the total recovery of the
funds will be acceptable to patriotic Nigerians.
The APC reaction followed commentaries at the
weekend that trailed the assertion by the National
Peace Committee for caution in the war against
graft. Besides, a member of the committee,
Bishop Matthew Kukah was also quoted last
week as calling on the administration not to
focus on a probe of the Jonathan administration.
In a statement issued in Lagos, yesterday, by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said anyone who attempts,
either by deeds or words, to sabotage the
recovery efforts is not a patriot and deserves
nothing but public opprobrium.
Narrating some of the funds allegedly stolen or
unaccounted for during the Jonathan
administration, the APC said:
*3.8 trillion Naira out of the 8.1 trillion Naira
earned from crude oil (2012-2015) withheld by
NNPC
*2.1 billion US dollars (N413.7 billion) from
Excess Crude Account unaccounted for
*Department of Petroleum Resources’ unremitted
109.7 billion Naira royalty from oil firms
*6 billion US dollars (N1.182 trillion) allegedly
looted by some ministers of the last
administration
*160 billion barrels of crude worth 13.9 billion US
dollars (N2.7383) lost between 2009 and 2012
*15 million US dollars (N2.955 trillion) from
botched arms deal yet to be returned to Nigeria
*13 billion US dollars (N2.561 trillion) in NLNG
dividends mostly unaccounted for
*30 billion Naira rice waiver
*183 billion naira unaccounted for at the NDDC
Tip of the iceberg
Remarkably, the APC said the above listed
‘missing’ funds constituted just a tip of the
iceberg since they are mostly from a few sectors
of the economy, mostly the oil sector, and were
discovered even before the forensic audit now
being undertaken in some key areas.
Saying that the present administration cannot
turn a blind eye to such, the APC said: “It is
absolutely gratifying that Nigerians are
vehemently opposed to the few who would rather
have the government of the day turn a blind eye
to the looted funds and, in their words, carry on
with the process of governance.
“Truly, what sort of governance can go on if the
billions of Naira in a few hands are not
recovered? In the first instance, the government
needs every kobo of the funds it can muster to
bring about the change it has promised Nigerians.
Secondly, leaving such hair-raising funds in the
hands of the few looters is dangerous, because
they can use the funds to destabilize any
government. In fact, no one will be surprised if
the looters use their dirty funds to sponsor public
demonstrations against the government’s
determination to recover the funds.
“Thirdly, allowing those who privatized the
commonwealth to get away is offering a thumbs-
up for looting. No responsible government will do
that,” APC said.
The party said that already, the looters have
embarked on a relentless and an increasingly-
bold campaign to discredit the government of the
day and sabotage the funds’ recovery process,
using newspaper columnists, ‘talking heads’ and
otherwise respectable opinion leaders.
“They and their paid hirelings have tried to employ
sophistry to muddle the waters, but Nigerians are
much wiser, and will not succumb to the dirty
antics of the looters’ megaphones,” it said.
APC said it is necessary to remind Nigerians of
the kind of massive looting of the treasury that
took place in the past few years, so they can
better appreciate the seriousness of the issue at
stake. It, therefore, listed some instances of the
looting as follows: “The level of looting that went
on in other sectors is better imagined, hence the
need for all Nigerians to rally around the Buhari
Administration to recover the loots, bring the
looters to justice and to put in place measures to
prevent such looting in the future,” it said.
It’s all lies — PDP
In its response yesterday, the PDP National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, described
the claims by the APC as a desperate attempt by
the APC to get public approval.
The PDP said: “In trying to escalate their stock-
in-trade of lies, wild allegations and falsehood,
the APC failed to understand that their baseless
fabrications are capable of throwing an
unsuspecting nation into chaos.
“The spate of fabrications by Lai Mohammed has
become a sickening source of worry for well-
meaning Nigerians, including those in his party.”
The PDP, therefore, called on President Buhari and
the APC as a party, to call their spokesman to
order before “he plunges the country into crisis
with wild and unsubstantiated claims.”
The PDP said instead of engaging in unnecessary
playing to the gallery, the APC-led government
should get serious with the fight against
corruption by investigating and prosecuting
corrupt persons, while moving on with the
demands of governance, especially in fulfilling
their numerous campaign promises for which they
were voted into office at the centre.
The PDP in another statement accused the APC-
led government of aiming to undermine the
critical democratic institutions and notably, the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
which it said had now been laid constitutionally
prostrate on account of lack of a quorum.
Metuh said despite claims of being a converted
democrat,n President Buhari has allowed, under
his watch, an incessant violation of sections of
the nation’s constitution, a development that has
become a huge threat to democracy and the
stability of the nation.
“For instance, how can this government explain
the fact that a major institution of democracy like
the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has been deliberately debilitated to the
extent that it can no longer perform its statutory
responsibility for lack of quorum?
“Nigerians are aware that before his tenure
expired on June 30, the former INEC Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega wrote to President Buhari,
intimating him of the fact that the tenure of
majority of the national commissioners will expire
before August, yet the President never acted,
resulting in the present crisis in the commission,
where more than 80% out of the statutory 13
members remain vacant, even as 11 states of the
federation are also without Resident Electoral
Commissioners.
“We note that this anomaly is in addition to the
uncertainty surrounding the controversial
appointment of an Acting Chairman of INEC in the
person of a national commissioner whose tenure
has since expired, not minding that there is no
provision for an acting chairman of INEC in our
constitution.
“This development has completely enervated the
commission from carrying out its functions as
stipulated in part 1 of 3rd schedule of the 1999
constitution as amended, thereby putting our
electoral system under severe threat.
“We ask, if not for a possibility of an ulterior
motive to inject a constitutional crisis and
undermine the nation’s democracy, why should
President Buhari wait to be urged before he
upholds his responsibility of forwarding
replacements to the Senate for confirmation so as
to enable the commission effectively carry out its
constitutional responsibilities to the nation? ”
“Could this be a ploy by the APC-led government
to use a decapitated INEC to conduct the
forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and
Bayelsa to pave way for their planned ‘capture’ of
the two PDP states?
“Is the weakening of INEC not part of the plot to
use the commission to put the PDP in precarious
position in various electoral tribunals to the
advantage of the APC?
The PDP also faulted the administration’s failure
to constitute a cabinet and what it cited as the
repeated attacks on the “revered national
leaders in the National Peace Committee, which
has as members, former Head of State, Gen.
Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, His
Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, respected
clerics; Archbishop John
Onaiyekan and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kuka,
retired justices of superior records as well as
others highly respected patriotic Nigerians, for
daring to counsel Buhari’s government on some
observed undemocratic tendencies and processes.
“The crass attacks are more astonishing,
considering the much appreciated role these great
Nigerians played in ensuring a peaceful and
violence free 2015 general elections.
“This is especially as we have no reason to
believe that such weighty attacks from the
President’s party can come without his approval,
more so as the APC spokesman, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, who authored the statements was
not part of the meeting between the President
and the Peace Committee.
Noting that the party is not against the anti-graft
war, the party called on its former members now
in the APC who were groomed in democratic
ethos while in the PDP to nudge their new party
towards good manners.
“We call on some well-meaning Nigerians who
have found themselves in the APC, especially,
those who at one time or the other, were pupils
of the teachings and visions of the founding
fathers of the
PDP, to rise above the shallowness of their
temporary enclave and join in this major defence
of democratic ethos”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/jonathans-govt-must-account-for-n13-9-trn-apc/

FTC

13.9 trillion kwa These lying liars again

Too much of brouhaha

Season what again I lost count

Jesssss na the kind money people loot

Oyel money


13,900,000,000,000


This money is enough to create another republic


In God we trust !!!

If these guys love our country let them start the probe from the time of democracy I mean since 1999 till date , then it will shows that truly they really want to fight the corruption than limiting it to one particular administration. To me this is a strategy to weigh down opposition party for thE next election. Buhari if you truly want to fight corruption start from your party then use them as scapegoat, trust me all those people that have embezzled our money will run out to vomit the money and that will show the level of your sincerity that hold no grudges against anyone.

It pains me more to hear this hardened Criminals calling out other criminals as if their own closet is clean. Please let the cases move to law court already so i'll be spared of all these lousy anti-corruption chants from same old known and time tested looters in APC.
Buhari, speed up the anti corruption process and stop being stupidly overzealous. Playing to the gallery is reeling out silly figures everyday. Anti corruption is sustained court cases against offenders. And they can only be guilty from only the judges' verdict.
Let me see any of you nitwits call me a Wailer

This amount can transform a continent to an extent

This amount can transform a continent to an extent

Spared thieves and Criminals spewing Miserable Accounting figures!
After all the audits - we still can't find anything

Make APC still dey try shut up na. they just running their mouth putting more pressure on PMB. Abeg allow Baba do his job the way he deems fit. I believe Buhari but I don't believe APC

This administration is heading to 100 days of honeymoon but nothing to show for it, rather they keep blaming the pass administration for their inability to fulfil their campaign promises..






This People Should Work The Talk

No p we dey here.

Nigerian Nigeria Nigeria,how many times did i call you?

ibkgab001:
Oyel money


13,900,000,000,000


This money is enough to create another republic


In God we trust !!!

Don't tell me you believe this shit. Apc are the worst political party in the history of Nigeria. Their lies and propaganda are so obvious. Maybe they're trying to gather excuses since they know they will fail. Habaaaaa

SweetSophia:
This amount can transform a continent to an extent

And you believed those lying liars? Blood of God

Join the conversation

Yes, we all agreed... We re no more in the era when stealing is not corruption.

Bring back our money Buhari...

SweetSophia:

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Henry
Umoru
ABUJA—The All Progressives Congress (APC)
yesterday, faulted what it described as a massive
campaign to stop the recovery of an estimated
N13.972 trillion allegedly squandered by the
immediate past administration.
The N13.972trn as computed by Vanguard was
the summation of funds allegedly unaccounted
for, withheld or allegedly stolen mostly from the
oil sector.
The party said in a statement, yesterday, that the
campaign to stop the recovery of the funds would
be a total disservice to probity and public
decency.
President Jonathan
The APC’s assertion was immediately rebuffed by
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
which described the APC claim as reckless,
irresponsible and highly provocative.
The PDP said APC’s display of imaginary figures
was a desperate effort by the ruling party to
achieve a heinous agenda against the Goodluck
Jonathan administration.
The PDP also yesterday, appealed to Nigerians
and the international community to appeal to
President Muhaamdu Buhari to guard against
what the party claimed as the seeming
determination of the government to derail the
country’s democracy. Citing what it claimed was
an attempt to stifle democratic institutions, the
opposition party said that Buhari was showing
himself not to be a born again democrat as he
had earlier claimed.
The APC which described as mind-boggling, the
massive looting of the nation’s treasury by public
officials during the Jonathan administration,
vowed that nothing but the total recovery of the
funds will be acceptable to patriotic Nigerians.
The APC reaction followed commentaries at the
weekend that trailed the assertion by the National
Peace Committee for caution in the war against
graft. Besides, a member of the committee,
Bishop Matthew Kukah was also quoted last
week as calling on the administration not to
focus on a probe of the Jonathan administration.
In a statement issued in Lagos, yesterday, by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said anyone who attempts,
either by deeds or words, to sabotage the
recovery efforts is not a patriot and deserves
nothing but public opprobrium.
Narrating some of the funds allegedly stolen or
unaccounted for during the Jonathan
administration, the APC said:
*3.8 trillion Naira out of the 8.1 trillion Naira
earned from crude oil (2012-2015) withheld by
NNPC
*2.1 billion US dollars (N413.7 billion) from
Excess Crude Account unaccounted for
*Department of Petroleum Resources’ unremitted
109.7 billion Naira royalty from oil firms
*6 billion US dollars (N1.182 trillion) allegedly
looted by some ministers of the last
administration
*160 billion barrels of crude worth 13.9 billion US
dollars (N2.7383) lost between 2009 and 2012
*15 million US dollars (N2.955 trillion) from
botched arms deal yet to be returned to Nigeria
*13 billion US dollars (N2.561 trillion) in NLNG
dividends mostly unaccounted for
*30 billion Naira rice waiver
*183 billion naira unaccounted for at the NDDC
Tip of the iceberg
Remarkably, the APC said the above listed
‘missing’ funds constituted just a tip of the
iceberg since they are mostly from a few sectors
of the economy, mostly the oil sector, and were
discovered even before the forensic audit now
being undertaken in some key areas.
Saying that the present administration cannot
turn a blind eye to such, the APC said: “It is
absolutely gratifying that Nigerians are
vehemently opposed to the few who would rather
have the government of the day turn a blind eye
to the looted funds and, in their words, carry on
with the process of governance.
“Truly, what sort of governance can go on if the
billions of Naira in a few hands are not
recovered? In the first instance, the government
needs every kobo of the funds it can muster to
bring about the change it has promised Nigerians.
Secondly, leaving such hair-raising funds in the
hands of the few looters is dangerous, because
they can use the funds to destabilize any
government. In fact, no one will be surprised if
the looters use their dirty funds to sponsor public
demonstrations against the government’s
determination to recover the funds.
“Thirdly, allowing those who privatized the
commonwealth to get away is offering a thumbs-
up for looting. No responsible government will do
that,” APC said.
The party said that already, the looters have
embarked on a relentless and an increasingly-
bold campaign to discredit the government of the
day and sabotage the funds’ recovery process,
using newspaper columnists, ‘talking heads’ and
otherwise respectable opinion leaders.
“They and their paid hirelings have tried to employ
sophistry to muddle the waters, but Nigerians are
much wiser, and will not succumb to the dirty
antics of the looters’ megaphones,” it said.
APC said it is necessary to remind Nigerians of
the kind of massive looting of the treasury that
took place in the past few years, so they can
better appreciate the seriousness of the issue at
stake. It, therefore, listed some instances of the
looting as follows: “The level of looting that went
on in other sectors is better imagined, hence the
need for all Nigerians to rally around the Buhari
Administration to recover the loots, bring the
looters to justice and to put in place measures to
prevent such looting in the future,” it said.
It’s all lies — PDP
In its response yesterday, the PDP National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, described
the claims by the APC as a desperate attempt by
the APC to get public approval.
The PDP said: “In trying to escalate their stock-
in-trade of lies, wild allegations and falsehood,
the APC failed to understand that their baseless
fabrications are capable of throwing an
unsuspecting nation into chaos.
“The spate of fabrications by Lai Mohammed has
become a sickening source of worry for well-
meaning Nigerians, including those in his party.”
The PDP, therefore, called on President Buhari and
the APC as a party, to call their spokesman to
order before “he plunges the country into crisis
with wild and unsubstantiated claims.”
The PDP said instead of engaging in unnecessary
playing to the gallery, the APC-led government
should get serious with the fight against
corruption by investigating and prosecuting
corrupt persons, while moving on with the
demands of governance, especially in fulfilling
their numerous campaign promises for which they
were voted into office at the centre.
The PDP in another statement accused the APC-
led government of aiming to undermine the
critical democratic institutions and notably, the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
which it said had now been laid constitutionally
prostrate on account of lack of a quorum.
Metuh said despite claims of being a converted
democrat,n President Buhari has allowed, under
his watch, an incessant violation of sections of
the nation’s constitution, a development that has
become a huge threat to democracy and the
stability of the nation.
“For instance, how can this government explain
the fact that a major institution of democracy like
the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has been deliberately debilitated to the
extent that it can no longer perform its statutory
responsibility for lack of quorum?
“Nigerians are aware that before his tenure
expired on June 30, the former INEC Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega wrote to President Buhari,
intimating him of the fact that the tenure of
majority of the national commissioners will expire
before August, yet the President never acted,
resulting in the present crisis in the commission,
where more than 80% out of the statutory 13
members remain vacant, even as 11 states of the
federation are also without Resident Electoral
Commissioners.
“We note that this anomaly is in addition to the
uncertainty surrounding the controversial
appointment of an Acting Chairman of INEC in the
person of a national commissioner whose tenure
has since expired, not minding that there is no
provision for an acting chairman of INEC in our
constitution.
“This development has completely enervated the
commission from carrying out its functions as
stipulated in part 1 of 3rd schedule of the 1999
constitution as amended, thereby putting our
electoral system under severe threat.
“We ask, if not for a possibility of an ulterior
motive to inject a constitutional crisis and
undermine the nation’s democracy, why should
President Buhari wait to be urged before he
upholds his responsibility of forwarding
replacements to the Senate for confirmation so as
to enable the commission effectively carry out its
constitutional responsibilities to the nation? ”
“Could this be a ploy by the APC-led government
to use a decapitated INEC to conduct the
forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and
Bayelsa to pave way for their planned ‘capture’ of
the two PDP states?
“Is the weakening of INEC not part of the plot to
use the commission to put the PDP in precarious
position in various electoral tribunals to the
advantage of the APC?
The PDP also faulted the administration’s failure
to constitute a cabinet and what it cited as the
repeated attacks on the “revered national
leaders in the National Peace Committee, which
has as members, former Head of State, Gen.
Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, His
Eminence, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, respected
clerics; Archbishop John
Onaiyekan and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kuka,
retired justices of superior records as well as
others highly respected patriotic Nigerians, for
daring to counsel Buhari’s government on some
observed undemocratic tendencies and processes.
“The crass attacks are more astonishing,
considering the much appreciated role these great
Nigerians played in ensuring a peaceful and
violence free 2015 general elections.
“This is especially as we have no reason to
believe that such weighty attacks from the
President’s party can come without his approval,
more so as the APC spokesman, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, who authored the statements was
not part of the meeting between the President
and the Peace Committee.
Noting that the party is not against the anti-graft
war, the party called on its former members now
in the APC who were groomed in democratic
ethos while in the PDP to nudge their new party
towards good manners.
“We call on some well-meaning Nigerians who
have found themselves in the APC, especially,
those who at one time or the other, were pupils
of the teachings and visions of the founding
fathers of the
PDP, to rise above the shallowness of their
temporary enclave and join in this major defence
of democratic ethos”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/jonathans-govt-must-account-for-n13-9-trn-apc/

Is APC now playing the role of EFCC or ICPC?


APC members should not forget that they had no acceptable candidate to Nigerians apart from Buhari. No APC members can beat his chest that he has a record not dented by corruption.