The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun has revealed that some of the governors under the umbrella of the party are under investigation by the Federal Government as opposed to the claims of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Speaking on “The Encounter with Constance Ikowu,” a programme on WEFM, Oyegun chided the opposition party for requesting for a probe of the party’s 2015 campaign funds because it was apparent the former ruling party used public funds for its presidential campaign.

Oyegun said, “You are comparing apples and grapes. It is the people’s money. You can’t use the money of the people to run parties and so the APC today is suffering from that basic correct policy decision.”

“But campaign funds cannot come from the monies that belong to the generality of Nigerians.”

“Individuals can donate, and companies can donate subject to limits that the law provides. We are not touching those. But where you take monies meant for positioning troops in the North East to fight against Boko Haram to fund parties (and) the most recent – when you take our crude, gave unregistered crude to exporters, repatriate the proceeds and use them to finance your political campaigns – that is wrong. That is impunity at its worst. So they are not comparable.”

Oyegun further explained that the Federal Government is not probing the donations made to the PDP by individuals but the use of public funds for party purposes.

“So don’t link it with the PDP because it has nothing to do with the PDP,” he stressed.

Oyegun also revealed that some serving APC governors and ex-governors were under investigation currently howbeit not in connection with campaign funds like the PDP and that the Buhari-led government would not spare them if found guilty.

“As at today, of course there are APC governors and ex governors that are under investigation, maybe not in respect or specifically campaign funds but there are.”

“The basic principle is – impunity must be removed from the system and wherever the tree falls, so let it be.”

“I am sure that if that happens, the kind of president that we have will look the other way. Normal process must take its course.”

The national leader of the party also admitted that the APC was in a dire financial distress but it was out of place to expect President Muhammadu Buhari to pump money into the party to bail it out.

He revealed that the party had come up with a plan to levy each member N100 monthly which could considerably keep them afloat for a while longer.

He said, “We came into office as part of change and as far as our political situation is concerned it means that party should not be funded from public funds and that is the reality.”

“And so we are making members to pay. We have over 12 million registered members of the party and we have all had a system where everyone will pay at least N100 per month to legitimize their membership.”

“If in our calculation, five of N10 million of these we manage to collect them, at the end of the day we have very little.”