The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the state issued by the opposition party on the ongoing probe in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA).<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday suspended Bala Usman as managing director of NPA and approved\u00a0the setting up of a panel of inquiry to investigate the management of the NPA.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday\u00a0inaugurated an 11-member investigative panel to probe all contracts awarded since 2016 when Usman became managing director.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development via a statement on Monday, the opposition accused\u00a0Amaechi and Usman of corruption and said they should be suspended and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.<\/p>\n
Responding in a statement on Tuesday, John Akpanudoedehe, national secretary of APC caretaker committee, said the PDP \u201cis in no position to pontificate or even point fingers at the APC on the ongoing fight against corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said nobody has been indicted, adding that the probe is a routine activity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe read the nonsensical statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against prominent party leader and the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon.
\nChibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and the suspended Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA),
\nHadiza Bala Usman, in connection with the routine administrative inquiry approved by President Muhammadu Buhari into the activities of the Nigerian
\nPorts Authority (NPA),\u201d Akpanudoedehe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile inaugurating the panel on Monday to probe the activities of the NPA, the transportation minister was
\nabundantly clear that no one has been indicted of anything. And the probe is in line with the routine discharge of the duties and functions of the Ministry of Transportation\u2019s supervisory mandate over the NPA.\u201d<\/p>\n
Akpanudoedehe said the approval of the probe shows that the president believes in transparency and good governance and has zero tolerance for corruption.<\/p>\n
The APC also described, as baseless, the allegation by the PDP that Amaechi\u2019s wife was involved in a controversial contract awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).<\/p>\n
\u201cShamelessly, the PDP was quick to mention the spouse of Amaechi, over a phantom story of imaginary money looted from the NDDC, concocted by one of their own, a known PDP sympathiser,\u201d Akpanudoedehe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an irony that the PDP whose public officers\u2019 family members and cronies collectively looted our country with many charged to court for financial crimes and money laundering offences, would, based on fiction, slander the spouse of an APC public official.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, Nigerians are appalled, but not by the concocted story of looting against Amaechi\u2019s spouse in NDDC, but by the known fact that after many years of being in control of the NDDC, several PDP government officials, their family members and cronies salted away the enormous funds that accrued to the NDDC that was meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added the PDP should \u201callow us focus on cleaning the daunting mess they left behind in the Niger Delta, like most facets of our country\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the state issued by the opposition party on the ongoing probe in the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday suspended Bala Usman as managing director of NPA and approved\u00a0the setting up of a panel of inquiry to investigate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7910,8103,8102,922],"class_list":["post-32725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-all-progessives-congress","tag-nigeria-ports-authority","tag-npa-probe","tag-peoples-democratic-party"],"yoast_head":"\n