Defence Minister, Dan-Ali diverting military funds for Buhari campaign – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday accused the Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali, of “diverting funds meant for the military equipment and welfare of soldiers fighting insurgency in the northeast.”
PDP claimed that Dan-Ali was diverting the funds “to produce partisan materials for the All Progressives Congress (APC) re-election campaign.”
In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party claimed the Defence Minister was diverting part of the military funds to produce APC’s campaign materials including an “electronic momento book, on which he ascribed credit to himself and the APC, while our soldiers suffer neglect in the war front.”
The party said the “placing of APC logo alongside that of the Ministry of Defence on the momento confirms our position that the Buhari Presidency has compromised our defence architecture for Mr. President’s re-election project.”
The statement reads, “Our party considers it insensitive and a gross impunity for the Minister of Defence to be engaging in patronising soverniers for President Buhari at a time when our soldiers are being killed in their numbers.
It is also instructive to note that President Muhammadu Buhari, as Mr. Integrity, has not reprimanded the minister, ostensibly, given that the diversion of public funds for his re-election campaign is now a policy of the APC and the Buhari Presidency.
