Order Immediate Unfreezing Of Benue, Akwa-Ibom States Bank Account - PDP CHARGED FG

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the actions taken by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in freezing the official accounts of Benue and Akwa-Ibom states. 

The party believes that the action is illegal and an attack on the innocent people of the state and have charged the federal government to immediately order the EFCC to unfreeze the states' bank accounts.

The PDP in a statement condemned the freezing as illegal, unconstitutional, overtly wicked and cannot be justified under any guise within the clear dictates and contemplation of our laws and practice as a nation.

The PDP rejects the action of the Federal Government and counsels the Buhari Presidency not to hide under the EFCC to unleash punishment and hardship on the people in states perceived to be averse to his 2019 re-election bid. In illegally blocking the flow of funds to these states, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government has ostensibly commenced a reprehensible design of using economic deprivation as a political tool to arm-twist governors and states to support President Buhari’s re-election in 2019.

The APC has been seeking ways to subjugate Nigerians, for which it has now resorted to subjecting millions of compatriots already impoverished by the misrule of the Buhari administration, to face more hardship by seizing funds legally belonging to them. Nigerians are all aware that no section of our constitution or any law in Nigeria for that matter confers any agency of the Federal Government with powers to interfere or put any restrictions on funds belonging or accruable to states as federating units of our nation.

Apart from its State Assembly, no other government body or institution has the powers of appropriation or restrictions on any funds belonging to the state. The PDP therefore urges all Nigerians to stand up and resist this dangerous trend introduced by the desperate APC to subjugate Nigerians, for which Akwa-Ibom and Benue states are now being used to test the will of the people in this direction.