By Francis Igata

ENUGU— The caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State chapter, weekend, accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of a grand plot to scuttle the fight against corruption in the country.

The accusation was made in a statement after an emergency caucus meeting and was released by the Enugu State Publicity Secretary of APC, Mrs. Kate Ofor.

According to the caucus of Enugu APC, ”after a careful analysis, we came to the inevitable conclusion that PDP’s ignoble mission is to scuttle the fight against corruption.

“The scheme to bring back unbridled corruption, drove the PDP to bury its head in the sand like an ostrich and like Pontus Pilate, wash its hands off what is going on in the country and like cowboys, keep heaping all the blame of the recession- hunger, abject poverty and despondency in the land on innocent Buhari. PDP smartly exonerated its leadership from the planlessness and squandermania of the last 16 years, which caused the recession.

“The craze to #BRING BACK UNBRIDLED CORRUPTION# to Nigeria is why PDP had the guts to call on President Buhari to resign for failing to fix the economy they battered during their sixteen years leadership in less than 20 months. PDP thought Nigerians are morons who forget so easily.”

“To hasten their passion to #BRING BACK UNBRIDLED CORRUPTION# to Nigeria,  PDP embarked on recruitment of some clergy, traditional rulers and all manner of carpetbaggers to celebrate and fan the unfortunate hunger, abject poverty and despondency in the land; hence playing on the sensibilities of Nigerians to forget how 1,310 kilometers Kano-Lagos narrow rail gauge cost Nigeria $8.3 billion and 4,000 kilometers Lhasa-Beijing standard gauge cost China $4.2 billion.

“We cannot easily forget how PDP simulated the economic recession plaguing us today by squandering the money meant to augment the $23 billion Greenfield Refineries awarded to a Chinese firm on 13 May, 2010. The Greenfield Refineries were to be located in Bayelsa, Lagos and Kogi states, which could have stemmed foreign exchange demand and halt billions of Dollars expended over the years on importation of petroleum products.”

“The nostalgia to #BRING BACK UNBRIDLED CORRUPTION# to Nigeria compelled the PDP to beat their chest for rebasing the Nigerian economy above that of South Africa, thus became the largest economy in Africa.”