The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday, September 29, 2023 charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to come clean on what it described as “the desperation by its lawyers” in the United States to conceal certain vital details regarding the academic records of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Chicago State University (CSU) from the public.
It said that it was clear that the APC is a major threat to the nation’s democracy thus, called on all men of goodwill across Nigeria and beyond to stand firm in the defense of democracy, transparency and the rule of law in the country, especially at this critical time.
This was as the party said that the desperation to conceal vital information was consistent with APC’s penchant for trickery and underhand dealings in their transactions with Nigerians which has heightened under the Abdullahi Ganduje leadership.
The PDP said that the Application by Tinubu’s lawyers urging the US District Court of Illinois not to release the said academic details are in direct conflict with the public declarations by President Tinubu that his academic records are impeccable.
The opposition party noted that President Tinubu had in a public function openly asserted to Nigerians that he was one of those most recruited graduates of his university with multiple honours, First Class Degree, adding that he had reference point.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said that in view of the above assertion, it therefore hold that the plea by the lawyers that the details of his academic record should not be released is a great disservice to President Tinubu in particular and Nigeria in general.
The PDP also said that by appointing Ganduje as the national chairman of the APC despite the malodorous corruption and bribery allegations against him in the public domain, confirmed the APC as not only being a cesspit of corruption but, also as irredeemably given to concealment and condonement of depravity, sleaze and mendacious acts.
In the words of Ologunagba; “Moreover, it is curious that the APC has remained silent on allegations and public apprehension of sabotage in the Monday, September 25, 2023 fire outbreak at the Supreme Court, which is suspected to have been an arsonist attack with the intent to cripple and frustrate the Supreme Court in the handling of the Presidential Election Appeals pending before it.
“The APC must in the least acknowledge the desirability and moral duty placed on it to encourage, insist and ensure that it is transparent with Nigerians, and indeed, the world. Failure to discharge this duty to Nigerians is condemnable.
“The litany of probes, inquiries and investigations which were instituted on various matter without reports under the APC since 2015 validates the above,” he said.
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