The All Progressives Congress has dismissed the allegation that the ongoing war against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari was targeted at the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement, on Monday, said the allegation of witch-hunt by the opposition was aimed at stifling the war against corruption.
Mohammed’s statement came on the heels of a news conference addressed in Abuja on Sunday by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who alleged that the anti-corruption war was selective.
The statement by Mohammed read, “The ceaseless cry of selective anti-corruption battle is a bogey invented by the PDP to intimidate the anti-corruption agencies, and it will not work. It is the PDP’s strategy to stifle the fight against corruption.
“‘How can the PDP claim to support the anti-graft battle when every time any of its members is called in for questioning, it runs to the media to shout that the battle is ‘selective’? Is it possible that anyone who is invited for questioning will not belong to a party, an ethnic group or a certain faith?”
The APC said anti-corruption agencies in the country had a duty to investigate petitions sent to them, noting that an invitation for questioning was not the same as a conviction.
“Those who have nothing to fear must be willing to clear their names by honouring any invitation and only the guilty need be afraid.
“The PDP must stop being hysterical over such invitations which are not going to stop simply because the opposition has called a press conference to cry wolf where there is none,” the APC said.
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