The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described All Progressives Congress (APC) as the headquarters of corruption.

It also said that the stench of corruption oozing out of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has further confirmed that the 'APC is the dockyard of thieves, treasury looters, and oppressive cabal who have stolen our nation dry.' 

This was contained in a statement titled “NDDC: You Are the Headquarters of Corruption PDP Replies APC...Exposes APC’s Plot To Stall Corruption Probes” issued by the Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, on Wednesday, July 22.

Ologbodiyan said that the statement was in response to the Tuesday statement from the APC titled, ‘PDP Dead Scared of NDDC 19-Year Forensic Audit, Legislative Inquest-APC.' 

Read APC's statement to PDP Here

The opposition party in its latest statement said the APC has been seeking to frustrate on-going probes in government agencies because its leaders are ‘complicit and all soiled, from head to toe, in the mire of corruption.’

The statement read “The party noted that APC’s attack against PDP’s insistence on the prosecution of APC leaders indicted in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) probe further betrays the ruling party’s desperation to shield its corrupt leaders and office holders who have been implicated in the probe.

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"Also the attempt by the APC to accuse the PDP over the collapse of the acting NDDC Managing Director, Daniel Pondei, at the National Assembly, apparently under the weight and shame of the massive corruption in APC administration further exposes APC’s misery Under this administration, no government agency is safe from the pillaging fingers of the APC. 

"The disgraceful and scandalous appeal of ' Hon Minister, off your microphone' situation at the National Assembly sums it all. Our party challenges the APC to find its voice and speak out on the litany of evidence in the public space, showing how its leaders have been stealing billions of naira NDDC fund while people of the region, wallow in abject poverty and despondency."

The statement challenged the APC to address the corruption at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) where “their leaders and cronies have been fingered in alleged involvement of looting of about N4.448bn through underhand contracts.”

“Nigerians are already in the know of how APC leaders reportedly siphoned N40 billion from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), part of which was allegedly used to finance APC’s 2019 campaigns in a racket in which certain top APC leaders were alleged to have received N3 billion each.

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"This is in addition to exposed looting of the N33 billion NEMA fund as well as findings by the House of Representatives that the funds were never used for provision of emergency food for victims of insurgency in the Northeast among other items as claimed.

"The APC has also remained silent over the allegations that part of the looted funds discovered in the Economic Financial Crimes and Commission (EFCC) probe, was given to a very top official of the APC administration.

"Nigerians have also not forgotten the alleged malfeasance in the APC -led ministry of finance and that of humanitarian affairs where billions of naira meant for palliatives and other...essentials to mitigate the hardship occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic was allegedly stolen,” the statement added. 

The opposition party also accused the APC leaders of stealing N9.6 trillion, as seen in a leaked Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) group memo. 

"We are aware how APC leaders stole a whooping N9.6 trillion ($25billion dollars) through underhand contracts; the siphoning of N18 billion out of the N48 billion meant for the rebuilding of six northeast...states ravaged by insurgency as well as the looting of N25 billion from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), among others.

We know that the APC leaders are now having sleepless nights. However, pointing accusing fingers at others, destroying evidence, resorting to antics at the National Assembly as well as threats, intimidation and attempts to silence vital witnesses will not help the APC as the headquarters of corruption."