Buhari dismisses PTF report, tackles PDP over fake medical report

All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari has accused Peoples Democratic Party of using discredited report of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and a fake medical report to malign his character ahead of the February 14 polls.

He said it is ridiculous to use a discredited PTF report and non-existent medical report to rubbish his credibility.

A statement by the media and publicity director of the APC presidential campaign Malam Garba Shehu said the seemingly frustrated ruling PDP cannot hoodwink the Nigerian public in its sickening attempt to tarnish the towering moral stature of its presidential candidate by dredging up a discredited report.

“President Obasanjo who set up this panel to probe Buhari’s tenure at PTF discovered something shocking from the work of the panel,” Shehu said.

He recalled that after reviewing the report former President Obasanjo directed the relevant authority to go after those indicted by the report.

Shehu said it was common knowledge to Nigerians that the Haruna Adamu Management Committee was sacked by former President Obasanjo in March 2000 for alleged incompetence, amidst charges of serious abuse of public trust.

The Buhari spox said several members of that committee were indicted and made to refund several hundreds of millions of Naira of public funds, which they illegally took from the PTF. 

He stressed that anyone under the illusion that it could use “a rotten report to smear Buhari must be living in fantasy.”

On the fake medical report, the Buhari spokesperson said ‎‎”we are able to track the circulation of the post on a social media platform and we know that the information emanated from the Facebook handle of one of Governor Ayo Fayose’s aides.”

“It is noteworthy that the authorities at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) have given a clean bill on General Buhari’s health status,” he said.

“It is also noteworthy for Nigerians to understand that the PDP will stop at nothing to cast aspersions on the person of General Buhari,” he said.

He said they knew PDP’s desperation of impending defeat at February 14 vote, “but to anticipate that the PDP would go as dirty as spreading falsehood on an individual’s state of health could not have been imaginable.”