PDP tasks Buhari To Recover stolen N28bn IDPs’ funds - Or

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately recover the over “N28 billion” meant for the rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the northeast which has been allegedly “stolen by members of the Presidency cabal and certain Interests in his All Progressives Congress (APC).”


The party accused the presidency and the ruling APC of providing cover for those “who have been frittering away billions of naira donated for the well-being of victims of insurgency.”

The party, however, added that despite the open allegations, the presidency had not taken any firm step towards an open investigation into an alleged involvement of a cabinet minister and top presidency officials in the stealing of N18 billion IDP fund, not to talk about recovering the stolen funds. It recalled that it took immense pressure from Nigerians before President Buhari could even sack his indicted former SGF, who, hitherto, was enjoying the cover of the presidency.

“The APC and the Buhari presidency cannot claim to be unaware of the damning report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a public document which detailed how officials were using bulk of the resources meant for the IDPs on contracts that were found to have immensely benefited officials of the APC government, including the sacked Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.

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The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday, said the President cannot in all honesty claim not to be aware of reported sharp practices, involving billions of naira in the management of funds in the Presidential Initiative on the North East, since the issues became public.

“It is clear to Nigerians that the APC government swims in corruption and concealment of sleaze, but stealing from the IDPs is what they least expected. That, for majority of Nigerians, is the worst form of man’s inhumanity to man".

The Presidency cannot, in any way imaginable, claim not to be aware of reports that sometime in August 2017, a cabinet minister and a high ranking Presidency official were alleged to have diverted N18 billion from the N48 billion approved by the National Assembly for the rehabilitation of millions of IDPs and rebuilding of six Northeast states ravaged by insurgency in the 2017 budget.