Any member of the PDP who is found guilty in the case of alleged diversion and theft of about two point one billion dollars arms money will face intra party disciplinary action and will be severely sanctioned accordingly, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said.
This resolve was made known in a communique issued at the end of a meeting of the party’s body of national vice chairmen on Thursday.
The statement signed by the body’s secretary, Cairo Ojougboh, who is also the national vice chairman of the party (South South) also expressed support for the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration’s campaign against corruption.
“That the PDP as a party dissociates itself from any of its members so indicted and that any member so convicted shall also face intra party disciplinary action and will be severely sanctioned accordingly,” a portion of the statement read.
“That the principle of the Rule of Law which was a cardinal focal point of the party while in government remains sacrosanct and immutable,” said the party.
“We make bold to say that those who are corrupt have left the party and those who left are indisputably mercenaries and soldiers of fortune”.
“That the vast majority of PDP members at the grassroots are innocent and not corrupt and accordingly we frown at and reject the notion and tagging of the PDP as a corrupt Party,” it said.
The members of the PDP who have been charged to court over the theft are, former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, a former minister of state for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, and a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu.
Also accused is a former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, and his son, Sagir Bafarawa.