PDP Has Normalized Corruption In Nigeria – FG

President Muhammadu Buhari will not be disturbed by unreasonable criticisms by PDP in his fight to end corruption in Nigeria, FG has said.

The president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu revealed this via a recent statement while he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja.

According to him, the level the country’s anti-corruption crusade has gone reached now is presently reflecting what the PDP left behind.

He added that corruption has become so normalized by the PDP that they find it hard to define what corruption and theft are these days.

His words, “Corruption became so normalized by the PDP that they had difficulty defining what is corruption and theft,”

“The large number of cases, new and old, may appear to be daunting but PDP, which is now heckling the president has forgotten that the party bequeathed this to the current administration.

”They had large number of cases they did not investigate and prosecute.”

“The current administration is handling many of the cases that the PDP should have dealt with and the new ones as they arise.”

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.

In the 2019 elections, former vice president Atiku Abubakar and PDP presidential candidadate and his party rejected the outcome of the elections as INEC was yet to conclude the process and make an official pronouncement. On the 25th of February, PDP National Party Chair, Prince Uche Secondus alleged that the result as announced by INEC were incorrect.