Prince Kassim Afegbua, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party has lodged a petition with the nation’s anti-graft bodies, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, against the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus.
Afegbua had before the lodgment of the petition served notice that he was going to demand financial accountability from the party Chairman.
He fulfilled his promise to subject the leadership of the Uche Secondus-led PDP to financial scrutiny on Monday by submitting a petition to the Chairman of EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa.
Afegbua, who stormed the EFCC and ICPC offices on Monday between 10.30 am and 11 am handed over his petition and asked the EFCC to look into the financial transactions of Prince Uche Secondus, in the spirit of transparency, accountability and book-keeping in line with the exisiting anti-corruption laws.
He noted, in a press statement he issued after his visits to the anti-graft agencies, that much of the financial transactions of the PDP under Prince Uche Secondus had been shrouded in secrecy and mystery, accusing the leadership of deliberate attempt to shortchange the party in the build up to the 2023 general elections.
In the petition, Afegbua is asking the anti-graft agencies to look into and scrutinise close to N10b naira that allegedly accrued to the party’s purse from 2017 till date especially those that were as a result of sales of nomination forms for oresidential, gubernatorial, House of Assembly and Senatorial elections, saying as an opposition party, the leadership should lead by example by ensuring that there was transparency together with accountability.
He specifically accused Prince Uche Secondus of not living up to the expectations of strengthening the party to play its formidable role as a virile opposition party, adding that, avoiding the use of the party’s bank accounts and resorting to the use of one MORUFU NIGERIA LIMITED allegedly as a conduit pipe for financial mismanagement in the sales of forms in 2019 was an abberation.
He called on the EFCC and ICPC Chairmen to urgently ensure that due diligence was carried out to safeguard Nigerian democracy and guarantee the interest of the party’s overwhelming members.
He added that in the event the anti-graft agencies delayed in carrying out its investigation, he would have no option but to seek a legal redress in the law court.
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