computergenius:
THE PDP IS THE MOST CORRUPT PARTY IN AFRICA

We as Africans keep blaming our european colonial masters for african underdevelopment and backwardness many years after the colonial masters have handed over to africans and gone to their own countries. I do not agree with this.

Much of africas problems result from serious endemic corruption, bad governance, disunity and weak insitutions.

I want to start with the problem of corruption which is the biggest problem confronting african states. The problem usually starts from within the political party in power and spreads to other sectors of the country. I want us to list or nominate political parties in africa based on their level of corruption.

I want to nominate the Peoples Democratic Party, a Nigerian political party and one of the largest parties in africa as the most corrupt political party in Africa.

My reasons are:
1. The PDP was in power in Nigeria for fifteen years (1999 to 2015) but there was very little development due to bad governance and massive stealing of public funds.

2. During this period PDP Politicians indulged in careless. Mindless. Massive looting of public funds. (Some people estimate that around $50,000,000,000 was stolen from the country during this period)

3. PDP politicians stole billions of dollars of Oil subsidy funds meant to protect poor people from the effect of rising global oil prices. They became so rich that they bought fleets of private jets for themselves, and large fleets of ships and exotic cars like limousines. They builth massive hotels and organised parties where they gave private jets, ships and exotic cars as gifts to their friends, family, cronies and concubines.

All these were happening while the nation was gradually going broke. Schools were shutdown because the government could no longer pay teachers. Public hospitals had no drugs and doctors ran away to foreign countries and millions of sick people died. Many public universities were crippled by strikes by hungry and angry lecturers.

4 PDP politicians stole billions of dollars of fertilizer subsidy funds and other agriculturer inputs meant to ensure that enough food is produced to feed the nation. The end result was an astronomical increase in the price of food that left the people hungry and angry.

5. PDP politicians colluded with soldiers and police men to steal billions of dollars of funds meant to buy weapons for fighting terrorists organisations such as boko haram.

They colluded with foreigners to defraud the country. They overpaid for fighter jets that were never supplied and paid multiple times. They overpaid for ammunition that were never supplied. They stole soldiers salaries and allowances meant to pay soldiers on the war front who were fighting boko haram. The result was that Nigeria soldiers failed to contain the terrorists. Boko haram killed thousands of people and raped thousands of women. Boko haram caused terrible destruction.

6. They stole the entire pension fund for civil servants including the police pension fund for retired policemen and military men.

7. PDP politicians awarded heavily inflated contracts that often end up as abandoned projects. The result was that national infrastructure deteriorated completely. Bad roads, and collapsing bridges every where.

8. PDP politicians colluded with Workers in the national oil company NNPC to steal billions of naira meant for the maintenance of the refineries and pipelines that carry crude oil.

They used private jets to ferry these stolen monies in billions of dollars and other foreign currencies to bank accounts in foreign countries such as south africa, swazilland, ghana, india, china, russia, dubai etc.

Some people claim that APC is worse than PDP but that is a BIG LIE. The facts are very clear. Corruption in the PDP was so huge that the country fell into a serious financial crisis. It was the APC under Buhari that saved Nigeria from total destruction. In other words PDP politicians were so busy stealing oil subsidy fertilizer subsidy funds and others that they did not see that Nigeria was already on its death knee. It was the APC that rescued nigeria. Billions of dollars of recovered looted funds is evidence of this all gotten from PDP thieves. PDP means poverty to the people.