the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said the war against
corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari is not one-sided as some
members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are also affected.
Dogara told journalists in Lagos that there was no way many APC members
would be affected because they did not have the opportunity of being in
government.
“If we are talking about corruption, naturally it will relate to those
that had opportunity to serve in government. You will recall that the
PDP had been in power for a number of years, more than a decade and if
you were to weigh members of opposition that are in government now, and
had opportunity to serve, those that would have tendencies to engage in
pilfering of resources, majority will come from PDP, except we are not
been realistic.
“Though we can’t claim that all the members of APC are saints, you
pointed out that APC spent money in the course of the campaign, but
where did this money come from? As it is, we haven’t really had any
facts about government officials forwarding money to the cause of the
campaign. Majority of the money that was stolen was channeled towards
the PDP campaign,” he said.
Dogara also said:
“You know that this arms purchase monies, for
instance, virtually everything was given for the prosecution of PDP
campaign. I do not think a dime went to any member of the APC; we were
all in government then. I can’t remember a discussion like that then,
but I knew when some of the funds were been given to some of our friends
as well, but I believe that no one that is of APC stock was given that
money. The whole thing was scripted.”
