The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said the approval of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account to fight insurgency is alarming.

National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbodiyan in a statement on Friday said the government was trying to secure approvals without recourse to due process,

The party said, “The PDP supports the fight against insurgency. We hold our officers and men confronting the terrorists and securing our territorial integrity in high esteem, but we are concerned about the manipulative tendencies connected with the approvals as well as the veracity of claimed purpose of the fund.

“Nigerians would recall that the APC-led Federal Government had claimed that it has since defeated the insurgents.

“If it would take a billion dollars from a nation’s savings to kill what they long claimed was dead, then we challenge the APC government to come clean and tell Nigerians the whole truth.

“The era of lies and propaganda is long gone and Nigerians now know the truth. The federal government must be held accountable and stopped from any move to fritter away our national savings.

“We therefore call on the National Assembly to interrogate this proposed disbursement and subject it to a thorough but rapid interrogation.”

It added that the current administration must apologise to Nigerians for lying about defeating Boko Haram.

“By accepting the $1billion for fighting insurgency, the APC-led federal government has admitted that it lied when it announced that it has defeated the insurgents. They should therefore apologise to Nigerians for giving them a false sense of security, resulting in their vulnerability to attacks by terrorists,” the party added.

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