The All Progressives Congress has said that the Goodluck Jonathan administration may end up as the
most corrupt in Nigeria’s history.
The party, in its first official reaction to the the N255m bulletproof car scandal involving the Minister of
Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, said it was appalled at the manner Jonathan was handling the matter.
“We now understand why corruption has grown wings under the Jonathan Presidency, and why the
administration may well go down as the most corrupt in the country’s history,” it said in a statement by
its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Sunday.
The statement was made available to journalists just as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said it had
no documents relating to the purchase of the controversial cars.
The APC said it reached its conclusion on the Jonathan Presidency after juxtaposing the evidence
that had so far come out of the car scandal with the actions so far taken by the President.
It pointed out that the handling of the scandal was a test case for the Jonathan government’s anti-
corruption war.
The statement warned that Jonathan might be considered an accessory to the scandal if he
continued to shield Oduah from facing the consequences of her alleged indiscretion.
The statement reads in part,“It has now emerged that the money spent on the cars was not appropriated,
which is a violation of the Nigerian constitution; that due process was not followed in buying the cars, as
the Bureau of Public Procurement has testified, and that the minister, who was said to have approved the
purchase , violated the law by approving an expenditure over the N100m limit.
“These revelations make the Oduahgate a straightforward case that should have been summarily dealt with
by the President. Instead, he has engaged himself in rigmarole by setting up a diversionary administrative
panel in what is now looking like an orchestrated ploy to buy time, hoping this issue will die down and the
minister will escape being sanctioned.
“Unfortunately for Mr. President, Oduahgate is not just another scandal, but a referendum on his
administration’s fight against corruption, and on the legacy he intends to leave in this critical area.”
APC also accused Jonathan of “thumbing his nose at Nigerians,” who have expressed outrage at the
action of the minister, by approving her trip to travel to Israel as part of his entourage.
According to the party, no one believes the ‘dummy’ being sold to the public, that Oduah was denied
access to the President in Israel.
It added that “the egregious act of putting the minister on his(Jonathan) entourage, at a time she is at the
centre of a terrible scandal, calls to question the President’s sense of propriety and his commitment to the
war against corruption.”
The opposition party further observed that the body language of the President over the matter was sending
a signal to ministers that it was alright to be corrupt.
It also wondered whether the President was aware of the joke going the rounds that five “super
ministers that he can neither sanction nor remove, irrespective of their actions,” were ferreting out
fundsfor his 2015 war chest.
But the Peoples Democratic Party, said the opposition, especially the APC, was in not in a position to
accuse the Jonathan administration of corruption.
It described the APC as a party peopled by those whose main business is corruption
“The APC lacks the moral right to accuse our dear President and our great party of corruption. Most of
the opposition leaders ought to be behind bars.
“We are happy the President has set up a committee and has ordered for an investigation into the
issue. This shows that he has respect for the law, “the PDP through its Deputy National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Abubakr Jalo, told one of our correspondents.
It therefore advised the APC “ to remove the log in its eyes before removing the speck from the eyes of
others.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-not-serious-about-fighting-corruption-apc/

Nigeria?!!! *just passing by*

APC should keep quiet, they're not better than the aviation minister.


We know they're the one sponsoring the propaganda going on in the aviation ministry.






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Tinubu ' s APC accusing someone of corruption. Now I believe that END Time is nigh.

It frowned on the ethnic dimension which comments and street actions on the issue had taken and advised “ethnic lords, jingoists as well as lynch mobs “ to realise that biased sentiments could hardly achieve an objective basis for establishing the culpability of the public officers involved in the matter.”

[b] The party then went for the jugular of the APC , saying it (APC) was not different from a white washed tomb.

The PDP described the APC as a stinking sepulchre and the headquarters of corruption in Nigeria.

It said, “This is a party whose leaders relish in stinking miasma but artfully turning a blind eye to it.

“They however go megaphonic when other political parties are involved.

“Hardly can you point at any of its leaders without a heavy baggage.

“In fact, the governors and leaders of the APC have been involved in bulletproof car deals more scandalous than those at the Aviation ministry but this is conspicuously missing on the sermon list of these false evangelists of good governance.”

It wondered why the trial of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for acts of corruption, had yet to be discussed by the APC leadership.

The PDP further contended that the stench of corruption oozing from the concession of the Lekki Toll Plaza and its debilitating effects on the electoral fortune of APC was the reason the Lagos State Government allegedly retrieved and paid off the firm that built the road[/b]

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-places-oduah-on-tactical-suspension/