The All Progressives Congress, APC, Delta State chapter, has questioned the manner of the fight against corruption the party under President Muhammadu Buhari, is fighting.
The party queried: “What manner of corruption are we fighting? Or does the war against corruption not extend to Delta State? ”
This was even as the party urged Buhari to be mindful of some personalities in the Presidency, who are playing “moles” on behalf of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Deputy Chairman of The Party, Chief Cyril Ogodo, a former member representing Ethiope in the House of Representatives, Solomon Edojah, among others, stated this in an open letter to Buhari.The party revealed that out of the 50-man list sent to the President for appointment from the State, only one appointment from the list scaled through, while the rest appointments favoured PDP members in the State.
In the letter signed by Edojah and Barr C. Ashibougwu, Chairman and Secretary respectively, the group bemoaned specifically, Buhari’s recent appointment of a serving Special Adviser to the Governor of Delta State, Prof. Saliba Mukoro, as Chairman, French Language School, a parastatal under the Ministry of Education.
The letter read in part: “These persons have taken it upon themselves to ridicule and batter the image of the founding fathers of the APC in Delta State, giving the impression that the party is not on ground, and thus making every effort to replace the names of APC members submitted for appointment, with members of the PDP.
“In the face of massive intimidation from members of the PDP in the 2015 general elections, it came to us as a surprise, that all the Federal appointments from the APC-led government under your watch, has been given to known members of the PDP in the State.
“The most recent shocking and embarrassing case, is that of a serving Special Adviser to the Governor of Delta State, Prof. Saliba Mukoro, who has just been appointed by you as Chairman, French Language School, a parastatal under the Ministry of Education.
“We humbly appeal that all the recent appointments from Delta State, which were obviously made without due consultation and clearance from the APC hierarchy, be cancelled, while the National Chairman of the party, Odigie Oyegun, meets with you with a clean copy of the 50-man list submitted to you for appointments by the National Vice Chairman of the party, South-South zone, Ntufam Hilliard Etta.”
The party then asked: “What face of the party are we showing to the world? What manner of corruption are we fighting? Or does the war against corruption not extend to Delta State? Your Excellency, we are still in coma over these glaring attempts to ridicule the party in the State.”
