Our Major Problem Is Ekweremadu, And Not Saraki - Oyegun

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says the party is
sad that a member of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) is the Deputy Senate President.

Reacting to a comment by Senator Dino Melaye that
the APC should be grateful that it didn’t lose the
National Assembly leadership to the PDP instead of
persecuting Saraki, Oyegun told Punch that “the
thing that rankled us most was the election of
Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President.”

“Saraki is a member of the APC, much as the main
line of the party would have wished a different
result and a different scenario but we all find it very,
very difficult to accept the emergence of a PDP
person as his deputy”, he declared.

On investigation of PDP over its campaign funds,
while there are no prosecution of APC members
over its own campaign funds, Oyegun replied: “We
are not investigating PDP campaign funds. We are
investigating records as to how public funds were
hijacked for illegal purposes which were not
budgeted for by the National Assembly.

“Nobody in business who contributed a lot of
money has been dragged to any tribunal because he
gave PDP funds. Public funds, public resources,
money that belongs to you, me and the people of
this country were stolen and diverted.

“Crude oil was being illegally sold to fund the
campaigns and other political activities. Not just
the campaigns, people just shared money and
pocketed.

“Anybody who steals from the treasury either to
fund campaign, or to put in his pocket or to buy an
estate in every part of the world would be asked
questions. It must not be allowed.

“Nobody must be allowed to get away with that. It
is not the same with campaign funding. We are not
investigating PDP campaign funds.”

Insisting that the APC did not make too many
promises, Oyegun stated that “The President
promised security; he promised the people jobs.

“He promised the people revitalisation of the
economy and strongly promised the people the
taming of corruption.

“A lot of things are under this and up till today, we
still stand by this and we stand behind because
these are the things he promised and he is
determined to do them for the people.

“The results are already showing all over the place.
The President did not make too many promises. A
lot of other things people are saying are neither
here nor there; people are saying things he never
said.

“Things like: he will make the Naira equivalent to
the Dollar; he never said things like that but people
just manufacture and read what they want to read
into these issues.”

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