APC’s chairman John Oyegun has said that the investigation into several PDP members was because they received money from Sambo Dasuki who is currently in EFCC custody and that APC was not called when money was being shared.
He made this declaration in an interview with The Punch saying that while those being implicated were predominantly from the PDP, some APC members have also found themselves in trouble.
“Prosecution depends on evidence. Once there is evidence, if anyone has evidence, let him provide it. This generalised rumour is not a basis for serious action of that type. And in any case, there are a few APC leaders who are being called to question. It is not as one-sided as it seems and it is not something to be apologetic for”, Oyegun said.
“When the then National Security Adviser was disbursing funds from his Automated Teller Machine, he did not call an opposition person to say take money. So, it’s a natural course of events. This administration- if anybody can read; the President will not mind whose ox is gored so long as justice is done. It just happens that as at now, those whose hands are found in the till happen to be preponderantly in the PDP. But you can see that a lot of other investigations are ongoing and quite a few involve some APC leaders.”
Oyegun also distanced himself and the APC from rumours that they were perhaps responsible for the crisis in the PDP; “All I can say is that they cannot eat their cake and have it. When their factional chairman left us, they were celebrating, they were happy saying oh, we’ve got a big fish. Now that they see the kind of man he is, they are crying wolf. We have nothing to do with the travails of the PDP because in reality; we want a virile opposition. We want an opposition that is responsible, that has ideas to contribute.
“They have failed to do this so far. So, it is not of any value to us that they are heating up and that they are losing the little bit of the sense of direction they had left. They are just looking for a scape goat. We have absolutely no interest in what is going on in the PDP. If you recall, we once urged their members who were trooping into the APC -as soon as we won the election- to remain in their party to give us the kind of opposition that will strengthen our democracy.
“This shows we mean well for them. We asked them to go and re-engineer themselves and be as we were; a responsible opposition party. I just pray for them and hope that they will be able to rediscover themselves, to be able to start the process of rebuilding themselves. Maybe, it is even good that what is happening is happening, because it will give us the time to take the tough decisions that the country which they ruined requires.”
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