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Why EFCC Must Investigate Bola Tinubu, Yahaya Bello, Amaechi, Others – PDP

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to go after any aspirant that purchases the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Recall that the ruling party on Wednesday announced that the it’s forms for Presidential ticket will be sold at N100 million, governorship N50 million; Senate, N20 million; House of Representatives, N10 million and State Houses of Assembly, N2 million.

Those that have declared to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the APC include: APC national leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige; Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and others.

Reacting in a statement through his SA on Communication and Strategy, Simon Imobo-Tswam, Ayu said the APC is planning to inflict more pains on Nigerians.

He said “pegging of her (APC) nomination forms at N100m, N50m, N20m etc casts the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the image of rogues and hypocrites.

Nigerians can all see what the APC is: a fragmented alliance put together to capture power and inflict maximum pain on Nigerians, including their own members.”

The PDP Chairman said Nigerians will recall how in 2014, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, now President and leader of the APC, told Nigerians that he had to borrow N27m to buy his nomination form.

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“The same man, as leader of his party, has now sanctioned the sale of the same forms at N100m! I am told that’s an increase of N370 percent.

But in 2014, the PDP was in power and the economy was still booming. The incompetent APC presidency has now run the economy aground, making Nigeria the “Poverty Capital of the World.” How then can impoverished APC aspirants buy nominations at such prohibitively high costs? And yet, only recently he preached “Equal Opportunity” to them,” he said.

Ayu said by this latest insensitive action, the APC has disenfranchised thousands of youths, and dashed the hopes of millions of Nigerian youths who applauded Buhari when he signed the Not Too Young To Run Bill into law in 2018.

He added that, “It is most insensitive, and mind-boggling. In fact, all those buying the N100m and N50m nomination forms should be investigated for fraud.

We, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are different. We are a mass movement for the Nigerian people. This is why our nomination fees are soft and democratic. When you compare us with the APC, the difference is clear. This is why we must return to power to save Nigerians from this insensitive government.”

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