Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
The Presidency on Sunday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is currently under a socio-emotional distress.
It was reacting to PDP’s allegation that the US dollars drawn from the Excess Crude Account was spent by the Buhari’s administration on 2019 elections.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, described the allegation as ‘rubbish’.
He said “The PDP is under a socio-emotional distress. They think that all governs in the world run on the basis of freewheeling looting as they did their own.”
Giving account of how the money withdrawn from the excess crude account was spent, he said “Here is what happened to that USD 1,000 million. It’s on record that the Buhari administration paid about USD 490 million for a dozen Super Tucano fighter aircraft in a direct, government-to-government (no Contractors or Commission Agents) transaction with government of the United State.
“Various other military procurements have been made. Balance of expenditure stands at about USD 880 million or so.”
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He said that barring considerations of national security, the details of the stage of implementation, the procurements made and the suppliers could be obtained on Monday, a workday.
Differentiating Buhari’s administration from the immediate past PDP administration, he said that the now opposition party spent defence procurement funds on 2015 election campaigns.
He said “The PDP spent Defence procurement funds on their failed 2015 political campaigns as proven in court.
“That is not to say every succeeding government, more so one led by a Buhari will do the same.” he stated
