IBADAN—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West has described call by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for the sack of Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, as irresponsible and hypocritical, saying; “as we have maintained before, a party like ACN does not have the required moral standing to talk on corruption or any crime in Nigeria.”

In a statement in Ibadan, yesterday, PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Kayode Babade, said: “ACN must first fumigate its own house to get rid of grossly corrupt and criminal-minded elements in its fold before seeking to clean other peoples’ house.”

PDP maintained that it was laughable that ACN that kept silent over the trial of the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who was accused of stealing over N7 billion belonging to the House and is standing trial before a Federal High Court in Lagos for stealing and laundering N500 million, can be asking Mr President to sack Dr. Okupe over an unsubstantiated allegation of fraud.