The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Thursday’s assets declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari and vice-president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo as, “a deceptive window-dressing to hoodwink unsuspecting Nigerians”.
National publicity scribe of the party, Olisa Metuh dismissed it as, “a mere list of some belongings of President Muhammadu Buhari and his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in place of the pledge made to Nigerians by Mr. President as candidate of the APC.”
The party noted that President Buhari and Professor Osinbajo failed to produce copies of their declarations, detailing the exact nature and value of respective assets.
Metuh said: “The release of a mere list of belongings falls short of credibility, transparency and anti-corruption standards as well as exposes the proclivity of the present administration for deception.”
The statement further read in part:
“We have noted the release of a flimsy list of belongings of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo by the Presidency, who wants such to pass as the public declaration of assets as pledged by the President.
“Nigerians are not deceived by this poor attempt at window-dressing designed by the Presidency to hoodwink the unsuspecting populace in a desperate bid to shore up its diminished image.
“We ask, is the resort to a mere list, instead of true copies of the declaration not a ploy to give the Presidency a window for denial in consonance with their widely observed inclination for flip-flopping, backtracking and brazen denials of their statements and actions?
“All we want is credibility, integrity and sincerity of purpose. We are not questioning how a president, who by December last year, declared that he had only N1 million in his account, could suddenly now list N30 million in the same bank account by May 29, and after an expensive campaign; we are not yet demanding the public declaration of his assets in his wife’s name.
“We are not even applauding the multiplication of his cows from 150 to 250 in a space of three months, arising from his dual and conflicting pronouncements on this issue.”
