Edo Decides 2020: PDP Taunts APC, Calls Ganduje 'Barefaced Treasury Looter'

The words of the Governor of Kano State - who also serves as the head of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national campaign ahead of the upcoming Edo governorship election, Abdullahi Ganduje - have been used against him as he has been described as "a barefaced treasury looter," by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). 

The National Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, says, in a statement, that for a person who has earned himself the "disgraceful public sobriquet of 'gandollar'", it is something of a "paradox" that he throws such accusations blithely.

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Ologbondiyan said that it is "only in a party like PDP" that someone with a "tarnished record" like Ganduje will be "selected to speak in public, let alone lead a governorship election campaign."

In the statement, the secretary said, “It is a paradox that an individual who has earned himself the disgraceful public sobriquet of “gandollar”, after being caught collecting gratification, would attempt to accuse others of having intention of looting the treasury of a state.

“The PDP points out that it is only in a party like the APC, under a Buhari Presidency, that such a tarnished individual can be selected to speak in public, let alone lead a governorship election campaign.

“Apparently, Governor Ganduje and other APC leaders are so used to looting public treasuries that such is his first mental direction after his inauguration to lead the Edo governorship campaign.

“Governor Ganduje has further confirmed the real intention of the APC, which is to use their morally embattled candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu (of course, birds of the same feathers flock together) for their desperate effort to regain access to Edo state treasury, after Governor Godwin Obaseki liberated the state from the stranglehold of APC treasury-looting godfathers."