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The Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation has said the witness who could have nailed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on his activities as the head of the Petroleum Trust Fund is dead.
The organisation, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said by saying that there was nothing amiss in the financial transactions in the PTF, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was only trying to cover Buhari.
The statement was issued by the Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode.
Fani-Kayode said it was wrong for Obasanjo, under whose administration he (Fani-Kayode) served as Minister of Aviation, to say Buhari was a clean man.
The former president had said his government found nothing against the former Head of State when he investigated the PTF under Buhari.
But Fani-Kayode disagreed, asking what might have gone wrong or what would have made Obasanjo change his position on the issue, contrary to the report that was submitted to him by the team that investigated the fund.
He said, “One of the directors of Afri-Project Consortium, who was contracted by the PTF as management consultants and project consultants, is one person that could have nailed Buhari.
“He was in a position to indict him and tell the world all that he knew about the graft that took place at PTF, but he died under very mysterious circumstances shortly after the Dr. Haroun Adamu report was submitted to the Federal Government when Obasanjo was in power.
“Many people are asking whether this was a mere coincidence or whether there was more to it.
“It is curious that former President Obasanjo, an elder statesman that we hold in the highest esteem and under whose watch the Haroun Adamu probe of the PTF was conceived, commissioned and concluded, would come out and attempt to clear Buhari of all the charges made and issues raised in the report and give him a clean bill of health almost fourteen years later.
“The Adamu report not only conflicts with Obasanjo’s new-found position but it also proves that the position taken by the former president has no basis in reality.”
Fani-Kayode alleged that the final report of the probe exposed nothing but what he described as “monumental sleaze and the most pervasive and insidious type of corruption in PTF while Buhari held sway there.”
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