Breaking!!! APC to Atiku, PDP: Account for Failed $460m Abuja CCTV, $2bn China Loan

– The All Progressives Congress, APC has asked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and his Party, the PDP to account for the $460 million expended on Abuja CCTV awarded contract in 2010.

– The APC equally asked the opposition PDP to explain to Nigerians the whereabout of over $2 billion China loan they took between 2010 to 2013.
– The party made the statement in reaction to former Vice President Atiku’s questioning on standard sovereign guarantee and sovereign immunity clause embedded in Nigeria’s loan agreement with China to fund the ongoing National railways project.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday asked former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to explain to Nigerians the status of the failed $460 million Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) awarded in August 2010 by the immediate-past PDP administration.

The party also asked the PDP to explain the over $2 billion China loan its administration took between 2010 and 2013 alone; as well as the $16 billion spent on power with no electricity; fuel subsidy rackets; counter-insurgency funds that were diverted and shared to political cronies, among other shocking heists.

APC, in a statement issued by Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, was reacting to a statement issued by the Media Office of former Vice President, Alh. Atiku Abubakar on the standard sovereign guarantee and sovereign immunity clause embedded in Nigeria’s loan agreements with China to fund the ongoing national railway projects.

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Party said Atiku’s statement was unresearched, unintelligent and pedestrian, saying that as the Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi had explained, the guarantee/clause in the loan deals was standard irrespective of the the country granting the loan.

“Perhaps, Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could redirect their energies to explaining to Nigerians the status of the failed $460 million Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) awarded in August 2010 by the immediate-past PDP administration.

“Also, they should explain the over $2billion China loan the PDP administration took between 2010 and 2013 alone; $16billion spent on power with no electricity; fuel subsidy rackets; counter-insurgency funds that were diverted and shared to political cronies among other shocking heists.

“Recall that the failed CCTV installation project was initiated by late President Umaru Yar’Adua and awarded in August 2010 by former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to help security agencies in the Federal Capital Territory check the growing insecurity,” it said.

The APC said since the agreement was signed, Nigeria had been servicing this loan to China while Nigerians were yet to attest to the visibility of CCTV project and unable to explain the status of the video surveillance project and that the matter was subject to a legislative probe.

“In all of these we are starkly reminded that the PDP remains a corrupted and damaged product. Nigerians must continue to reject the party at all levels of government.

“In the area of fiscal discipline, prudence, curbing leakages, are we currently getting it right? An emphatic yes! Every kobo expended on infrastructure counts.

“Verifiable evidence abound in the fast expanding national railway projects, airport remodelling among other critical infrastructure projects being undertaken by the President Muhammadu Buhari government. The days of phoney contracts as institutionalised by successive PDP administrations are fast fading,” it stated.