APC leader got N84billion contract under ex-CBN Gov Sanusi – PDP

PDP is claiming that an APC leader got a
contract worth N84billion from recently
suspended CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
and that is why APC what pained when Sanusi
was removed.
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The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged
that an unnamed leader of the All
Progressives Congress got a contract of
N84bn from the suspended Governor of
Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido
Sanusi.
The party said this was one of the reasons
why the opposition party was pained when
President Goodluck Jonathan suspended
the CBN governor.
Apart from this, the party also alleged that
another leader of the APC got another
N5bn consultancy contract while Sanusi
was in office.
The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling
party, Chief Olisa Metuh (pictured above), made
the allegation at a press briefing in Abuja on
Thursday.
Metuh was commenting on the unveiling of the
APC manifesto, which he said lacked character.
He said, “The spirited defence for the suspended
Central Bank Governor mounted by the APC was
because the leaders of the party benefitted
immensely from Sanusi.
“A fraudulent N84bn contract was awarded to a
leader of the party while another N5bn was paid
to another stalwart of the party as consultancy
fee.”
Metuh refused to give the names or the details
of the contracts.
When asked for reaction, the Interim National
Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, promised to react “soon.”
He said he was attending a summit in Abuja.
Meanwhile, Metuh has described the manifesto
which was released on Thursday as a product of
what he called “Janjaweed ideology.”
He also described the manifesto as a roadmap
to anarchy which he said was typical of all
anti-democratic coalitions and claimed that the
manifesto lacked character, depth and that it
completely addressed no issue.
Metuh said the manifesto ranked security of
lives and property low and that it gave no clue
as to its preparedness to tackle terrorism.
He added that the manifesto was a tacit
acknowledgment that the APC might be
benefiting from the mayhem and knew more
than meet the eyes about the spate of terror
attacks in the country.
He said, “When last year in its first official
outing, the leaders of the APC said terrorism in
Nigeria would disappear within 100 days of APC
leadership, Nigerians did ask if they knew the
characters in the crime and their sponsors. APC
gave silence as an answer while Nigerians kept
wondering.
“Today, the party has released its manifesto
with loud silence on the matter so that Nigerians
would not raise further questions on the face
behind the terrorism mask.”
On job creation and war against corruption
which the APC projected as cardinal on its
manifesto, Metuh said the APC had no credible
recipe for job creation nor had it shown the
strength of character to fight corruption more
than the PDP.
He said, “The PDP created anti-corruption
agencies – the Independent Corrupt Practices
and other related offences Commission, the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and
established the Freedom of Information Act to
further give teeth to the war on graft.
“The PDP-led Federal Government has also
shown no preferences in its battle against
corruption as senior party leaders as well as
relations have at one time or another been made
to face the law on charges of corruption.”