President Muhammadu Buhari
has vowed to probe the $16bn allegedly spent on the power sector during the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo,
according to a report by DailyPost.
The report revealed that
Buhari made the vow at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally
in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital, on Tuesday.
PDP presidential candidate,
Atiku Abubakar was Obasanjo’s deputy from 1999-2007 when the money was
allegedly spent
Buhari said: “The previous
government mentioned on their own that they spent 16 billion American dollars
for power. But you are better witnesses than myself.
“Where is the power? Where
is the money? We will follow them and eventually God willing we will get them
and we will get our money back.”
However, speaking at a
meeting with at the secretariat complexes of the Councils of Traditional Rulers
of Rivers and Bayelsa states, the president said: “I assure you that I’m all
out for free, fair and credible elections. The Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC knows my stand on this.
“Nigerians are assured of
free and fair elections. Under this leadership, nobody will be allowed to
intimidate other citizens. Nobody will be allowed to snatch ballot boxes and
run with them. I will make sure that the votes count.”
Buhari commended the
introduction of the Permanent Voters Card, PVC and Card Reader, and urged the
nation to embrace the technology, arguing that without it, the sixteen years of
misrule by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would not have been brought to an
end.
“In 16 years, the PDP
thought nobody could remove them from office. The introduction of the PVC and
Card Reader made sure that our votes counted in 2015 and the votes of Nigerians
will count in 2019,” he stressed.
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