Kwara PDP Accuses Government Of Spending Public Funds On APC

Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the state government of spending public funds on activities of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP, in a statement by its publicity secretary, Chief Rex Olawoye, flayed what it called “the illegal diversion of funds meant for development of the state to party affairs by the Kwara State government”. The party alleged that the government spent huge amount of money on the recent APC membership registration, congresses and sponsorship of its members to Kayode Fayemi campaign in Ekiti State. “We challenge the APC to tell the world the source(s) of the money it has been using to execute party activities in the past few months. For example; who paid for the multi-million naira mansion along Peter Tokulola street, GRA, Ilorin, that the APC recently acquired as a party secretariat? From which account other than the state’s, is the Kwara State government sponsoring over 50 APC state and local government executives to Umrah? Who paid for the transportation of over 1000 members of the APC to Isin, Offa, Share and Omu-Aran and Kaiama, where Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed went to commission his projects as part of an insensitive celebration of an uneventful third anniversary of the APC-led government?”, the PDP said. But secretary of the APC in the state, Prince Yemi Afolayan, in a chat with Daily Trust disputed the allegations which he described as spurious, saying the party should be ignored. He said: “PDP is thoroughly confused now. In the national scheme of things, the president is losing grip of the situation in Nigeria and that is why the leadership of PDP in Kwara State is confused. They don’t get their facts right and so when they talk, we just ignore them. When you have a group of confused people like that, the best thing is to ignore them. For example, the public relations officer of PDP was talking about our new secretariat; he doesn’t even know the location”.