$2.1bn Arms Deal: PDP Issues Stern Warning to its Members Indicted in Arms Deal Scandal

 

In the heat of the $2.1 billion arms deal controversy enveloping the political sphere in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party has given a stern warning to all of its members involved in the controversy. 

A stern warning has been released by the national leadership of the the Peoples Democratic Party to all its members involved in the ongoing arms deal controversy and those who collected money from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), to return it immediately.

 

The warning was made by the the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Ibrahim Jalo, who stated this in an interview in Abuja on Saturday.

 

Jalo said the party will soon be vindicated no matter what the opposition had planned. 

 

It would be recalled that most of the party's high-ranking officers have been dragged into the arms deal controversy after detailed information revealed that they benefited from money meant for purchase of arms from the Office of the National Security Adviser and are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. 

 

Jalo disagreed with the claim in some quarters that the actions of the members of the party were capable of having negative effects on the once ruling party.

 

He said, “When people say that this party benefited from the money meant for arms, I laugh. This is because we didn’t as a party get a dime from the former NSA.

“The party therefore has nothing to do with anyone who has collected money from the former NSA. Anyone, who has collected money from him, should return it. They are on their own.

“They will face trial without the party’s coming to their rescue. PDP is a clean party that has not taken money meant for the procurement of arms and ammunition or from the Federal Government.”

“All those who collected money from Dasuki used their personal companies to do so. We didn’t send them,” he added.

 

The PDP members now under investigation by the EFCC are: The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Metuh allegedly got N400m from the former NSA.

 

Meanwhile, a former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the party, Chief Tony Anenih, who admitted that he received N260m from Dasuki, had reportedly explained how he distributed the money. 

 

He said he gave N100m each to the former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, and a former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, adding that he gave a former presidential adviser, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, N63m.