In a swift reaction to PDP’s accusations, the Presidency said the party lacks the moral ground to pontificate on matters of probity and accountability.
It noted that if not that the party was shameless and bereft of conscience, it won’t come to the public to question the unprecedented steps taken by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to declare their assets publicly.
The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu who made the presidency’s position known in a statement said, if PDP had shame, they would have mounted pressure on former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice President Namadi Sambo to declare their assets on leaving office.
The presidential spokesman explained that “the contents of forms as submitted by the president and the vice president are, as we said in that statement, still being vetted and whenever the process is complete, they will be made public.”
The statement read, “PDP doesn’t have shame, neither does it have conscience. If they did, they would have pressured their leaders, meaning President Jonathan and VP Sambo to declare their assets on leaving office as the law requires.
“Nigerians haven’t forgotten that against all entreaties, the then president and his deputy adamantly refused to make any form of disclosure regarding their assets. Now that they are out, they are behaving as if the law does not exist.”
“Is that the party to question this unprecedented step our leaders have taken? They have lost all moral right to pontificate to anyone on matters of probity and accountability”.
