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PDP IS MORALLY HAMSTRUNG TO QUESTION THE ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADE
THE PDP would have been a robust and credible new opposition party. It doesn't lack intelligent and resourceful members. However, the $2.1 billion arms scandal has dealt a fatal moral blow to the PDP's credibility. The arrest of the Party's official mouthpiece, Mr. Olisa Metuh, for allegedly receiving 400 million naira from former NSA Dasuki is the most disappointing development as the extent of the scandal became public knowledge. Even if Metuh secures bail, where would he derive the moral courage again to pooh-pooh or discredit President Buhari's anti-corruption crusade? His moral authority to attack the anti-corruption crusade has evaporated and disintegrated with his own alleged involvement in the scandal.
THE PDP would have been a robust and credible new opposition party. It doesn't lack intelligent and resourceful members. However, the $2.1 billion arms scandal has dealt a fatal moral blow to the PDP's credibility. The arrest of the Party's official mouthpiece, Mr. Olisa Metuh, for allegedly receiving 400 million naira from former NSA Dasuki is the most disappointing development as the extent of the scandal became public knowledge. Even if Metuh secures bail, where would he derive the moral courage again to pooh-pooh or discredit President Buhari's anti-corruption crusade? His moral authority to attack the anti-corruption crusade has evaporated and disintegrated with his own alleged involvement in the scandal.
The PDP has alleged that holding their members accountable for their
roles in the scandal is intended to intimidate and decimate the
leadership of the party. In fact, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the AIT
chairman, even went to the farcical extent to claim that the $2.1
billion arms purchase scandal is a hoax and that the sleaze is the
creation of the Buhari administration to discredit the former ruling
party!
Okay, let's agree it is a hoax. But why are the beneficiaries admitting collecting the money from Dasuki? The only arguments they have been adducing to defend themselves is that they never knew the largesse was coming from the arms purchase funds. How can anybody admit receiving money from arms funds that never existed?
Are people people being picked up randomly or indiscriminately and accused of corruption merely because they are PDP members? Did EFCC arrest or invite any PDP member just like that merely on account of being opposition members, or because of evidence linking those arrested with the scandal?
Metuh had previously told Nigerians that the party fully supports the current anti-corruption crusade of the Buhari administration. Can you on one hand claim to support the war against corruption, and disparage the effort on the other, by claiming that the policy is intended to witch hunt the opposition? Is it Buhari's fault that most of those that illegally collected the arms funds happen to be PDP members? Should we blame President Buhari for the failure of the beneficiaries to question the source of the incredible cash they received? Should the fear of being accused of political witch hunt make the President abandon the anti-corruption crusade in order to be loved by opposition members? The PDP should take responsibility for its own self-inflicted moral albatross. It is unrealistic to expect the President to abandon the war against corruption to avoid accusations of witch hunt.
Okay, let's agree it is a hoax. But why are the beneficiaries admitting collecting the money from Dasuki? The only arguments they have been adducing to defend themselves is that they never knew the largesse was coming from the arms purchase funds. How can anybody admit receiving money from arms funds that never existed?
Are people people being picked up randomly or indiscriminately and accused of corruption merely because they are PDP members? Did EFCC arrest or invite any PDP member just like that merely on account of being opposition members, or because of evidence linking those arrested with the scandal?
Metuh had previously told Nigerians that the party fully supports the current anti-corruption crusade of the Buhari administration. Can you on one hand claim to support the war against corruption, and disparage the effort on the other, by claiming that the policy is intended to witch hunt the opposition? Is it Buhari's fault that most of those that illegally collected the arms funds happen to be PDP members? Should we blame President Buhari for the failure of the beneficiaries to question the source of the incredible cash they received? Should the fear of being accused of political witch hunt make the President abandon the anti-corruption crusade in order to be loved by opposition members? The PDP should take responsibility for its own self-inflicted moral albatross. It is unrealistic to expect the President to abandon the war against corruption to avoid accusations of witch hunt.
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