SAN FRANCISCO, January 31, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta state has dismissed the recent statement issued by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as baseless, unfounded, tendentious, malicious, stressing that it is deliberately aimed at impugning the integrity of the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.
Delta APC had, in a statement issued by its Acting spokesman, Engr. Leonard Obibi, linked Governor Okowa to a report in some national dailies alleging that a Niger Delta governor diverted $10 million bail-out fund through a purported “mistress” who highjacked the fund.
But the PDP in Delta, while reacting through its Publicity Secretary, Ifeanyi Michael Osuoza, stated that the opposition party in state is out to cast aspersions on the reputation of the Governor as a God-fearing man, who is an astute administrator and good manager of resources.
Osuoza pointed out that the original report by The Nation newspaper did not mention the name of Okowa and credited ‘a source within the EFCC’ for the story, adding that the anti-graft agency has not commented on the story nor suggested and confirmed their involvement.
While regretting that the APC is shamelessly dragging Okowa into what is at best a speculative story and at worst the job of paid hirelings, he said the APC in Delta is like a drowning man clutching at every available straw for survival.
The statement reads, “In their desperation to establish an ethnic link, the Delta APC described Georgina Onuoha, the central figure in a Facebook altercation relating to the story, as ‘an actress that hails from the Ika-speaking area of Delta State and based in Texas U.S.A.'”
“But this is a complete lie and misinformation. Georgina Onuoha has told the world that she is from Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State. She also disclosed for the benefit of the APC nit wits who know nothing about the cities in the United States that she lives in Sacremento, California, not Texas.”
“So where did the APC get their own information from if not for mischief purposes?”
The ruling party in Delta went on to emphasise that state governments do not receive dollars from the Federal Government, whether as FAAC allocation or bail-out funds, stating that it is the figment of the imagination of the APC for it to claim that Delta State received $10 million as bail-out fund.
The statement continued, “If we are to go by their phantom story, how was it diverted? Was it by wire transfer? How is that kind of transaction possible given the stringent foreign exchange regulations currently in place in Nigeria? Or is the Delta APC suggesting that $10 million was moved by cash through the nation’s airports?”
“Can such a huge amount of money be transferred into the United States without triggering the red flag at both the Financial Intelligence Units in Nigeria and the United States of America, because they receive, analyse and distribute financial intelligence gathered from Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on per seconds basis?”
“Can the ailing APC do Deltans a favour by giving us the details of the account that the $10 million was diverted to since it claimed that the money has been traced to a particular bank account?”
“Even as they torture their feeble minds to grapple with these very simple but critical posers, we wish to assure the divided and divisive APC in Delta State that their cheap attempt to cast aspersions on the solid reputation of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has failed woefully, as it is already common knowledge that he is a man of unassailable integrity and great moral rectitude.”
“Governor Okowa will not be distracted by the antics of these disgruntled politicians. He remains irrevocably focused on his stated vision of bringing prosperity to all Deltans as evident in the fruits of his job creation programme, infrastructural renewal and agricultural reforms.”
“Deltans know better than to believe the APC, a party that has become synonymous with lies and vile propaganda and has not fulfilled one electoral promise since it gained
power at the centre.”
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