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PDP Roasts Buhari, APC Over Transparency International Ranking

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has mocked the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration over the latest ranking of Nigeria by the Transparency International Corruption perceptions Index.

Naija News reports that the Transparency International Corruption perceptions Index ranked Nigeria 146 out of 180 countries studied.

In the latest release, Nigeria was ranked as the most corrupt country in West Africa.

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Reacting in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said the latest reports confirmed it stand that corruption had worsened under the present administration.

According to the opposition party, the Buhari administration and the APC have failed in their boasts to tackle corruption and insecurity.

The PDP described the Transparency International Corruption perceptions Index ranking of Nigeria as a national embarrassment.

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The statement reads: “The TI report, which shows our country dropping to a malodorous 26, from the already disapproving 27 points it maintained since 2017, had further exposed that the Buhari administration and the APC as merely posturing as saints and hounding innocent Nigerians with fake anti-corruption war, while engaged in unprecedented looting of our national resources.

“It indeed speaks volume that the Buhari administration and the APC that came into power in 2015 on an anti-corruption mantra, has ended up becoming the most corrupt in the history of our dear nation.

“Moreover, the fact that the APC and its government, with their numerous megaphones, have remained silent over the report is also very revealing.

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“By this TI report, Nigerians are no longer in doubt as to why our nation has been plagued with worsening economic hardship, poverty and hunger, dilapidated infrastructure and devastating retrogression in critical sectors such as health, power, education, transport, agriculture among others in the last four years while APC leaders, their families and cronies, gloat in affluence to the chagrin of Nigerians.

“Nigerians can recall that our party has since been challenging Buhari Presidency and the APC to come clean, account for the over N14 trillion allegedly stolen by APC leaders from government coffers in the last four years.

“This includes the stolen N9 trillion detailed in the NNPC leaked memo; the N1.1 trillion worth of crude allegedly stolen by certain APC leaders using 18 unregistered vessels; the over N1.4 trillion stolen from shady oil subsidy deals as well as monies stolen from sensitive government agencies including the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) among others.

“It is now clear that the Buhari administration and the APC have not only failed in their boasts to tackle corruption and insecurity but have ended up economically despoiling our nation and worsening our security challenges.

“The fact remains that the Buhari Presidency and the APC cannot controvert these damning facts. The only thing left for them is to apologize to Nigerians and get ready for their place in the dustbin of history as the worst government and political party ever in the history of our nation.”