PDP Spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of massive looting of the public treasury with a plan to buy Nigerians and their votes ahead of the 2019 general election.
PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, made the accusation in a telephone interview with the Saturday Tribune, on Friday and also alleged that the ruling party had resorted to propaganda ahead the elections.
He, however, disclosed that the main opposition party would, tomorrow, kick off its campaign for the 2019 elections, adding that it would be issue-based while the 2019 elections would also be a referendum on the three and half years of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Earlier in a statement, the PDP dared President Buhari to demonstrate his integrity by demanding for the immediate resignation of the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, over his negative comments on the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The party, in the statement signed by Ologbodiyan, also accused Amaechi, who doubles as the Director General of the President Muhammadu Campaign Organisation, of using government funds to campaign for the re-election of the president.
•Excerpted from a Tribune report
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