The Nationwide Chairman of the Inter-Occasion Advisory Council, IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle has demanded that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ought to determine and title leaders of the opposition amassing N50 million from the President Bola Tinubu administration.
He stated failure to do that, the previous VP ought to instantly apologize to opposition leaders over claims that they’re taking funds from the ruling occasion.
DAILY POST reported that Atiku had just lately claimed that the Tinubu Authorities is paying some opposition members/leaders N50m to destabilise the opposition events.
Dantalle, who was a visitor on Friday’s version of Channels Tv’s Politics Immediately, requested Atiku to apologise to the opposition leaders over the bribery claims.
“It’s important to watch out what you say so that you simply don’t unnecessarily hit up the polity.
“Sure, you’ve gotten your data as Atiku Abubakar, however that isn’t sufficient so that you can come out and say that each one oppositions, or all members of the opposition household, are amassing N50 million,” he stated.
“So far as I do know, my occasion the Allied Individuals’s Motion and in the present day, I’m managing the Secretariat of the umbrella physique of all of the political events in Nigeria, there is no such thing as a nationwide chairman, no chief anyplace amassing any cash that I do know.
“In case you are popping out to say, okay, fantastic, so, so and so are amassing the cash, to provide a result in what you might be saying, it’s totally different.
“You may have succeeded in creating mutual suspicion. So what I feel Atiku Abubakar ought to do, with all due respect, is to both apologize publicly to opposition leaders in totality, the identical method he made this allegation, or he determine and point out opposition leaders who’re concerned on this garbage.
“However for us within the Inter Occasion, Advisory Council, we aren’t conscious of what Atiku is insinuating. Sincerely.
“Every part and something is feasible in politics. However what I’m saying, I’m proscribing this to the Inter Occasion Advisory Council, that’s the 19 registered political events that I do know in the present day, there is no such thing as a such signal that anyone has collected N50m.
“I’ve Been talking with the leaders of all the opposite opposition events. I’ve spoken to the nationwide chairman of SDP, I’ve spoken to nationwide chairman of YPP, I’ve spoken to nationwide chairman of PRP, nationwide chairman of AA, nationwide chairman of NRM and everyone gave the impression to be indignant.
“It got here to a degree once I was not speaking and it appeared as if I used to be concerned in a few of these issues. It’s embarrassing. And sincerely, we’d like an apology from the previous Vice President or he ought to come out to determine and point out the individuals concerned.
“On this state of affairs, he claimed that ‘some opposition leaders’, it’s doable that some individuals need to get cash from Atiku and so they went to him and say ‘okay, that is what this particular person is giving us, so that you can provide us one thing like that’.
“It will likely be honest to all of us within the opposition household that you simply point out or determine the people who find themselves concerned on this, as a result of I don’t know who’s giving such cash, and I don’t know who’s amassing it.
“I’m saying this between me and God. That is able to hitting up the polity unnecessarily. In order an elder statesman and as a pacesetter, you aren’t alleged to make this sort of utterance, since you are hitting up the polity unnecessarily.
“He will likely be serving to us if he identifies these individuals, even when he doesn’t need to point out instantly, he can use a proxy to say the individuals concerned, or the events or the leaders concerned on this factor,” he said.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, had earlier requested Abubakar to offer proof backing his claims that the APC bribes opposition events with N50m.
Alleged APC’s N50m to opposition: Identify collectors or apologize now – IPAC to Atiku
