Subsidy scandal: Our stand on Tukur’s, Ali’s sons, by PDP



The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has opened up on the party’s position on the sons of two of the party’s bigwigs undergoing trial for their alleged involvement in the fuel subsidy scandal. 
Mahmud, son of the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Mamman Nasir, son of a former national chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali are among the 20 suspects standing trial for alleged fuel subsidy fraud.
At a news conference yesterday, Deputy National chairman of the PDP Dr. Sam Sam  Jaja declared that the involvement of Mahmud and Mamman Nasir in the scandal is not the business of the PDP and that the party would leave them to bear their cross.
Jaja pleaded that members of the public should stop linking Tukur and Ali, fathers of the two suspects to the scandal, stressing that the suspects are adults that must be accountable for their actions. 
He said: “Mamman Nasir and Mahmud are individuals and should be allowed to bear their cross. There are governors elected on the platform of the PDP who are facing prosecution as a result of their actions or inactions while in office. So, it is not a party thing.
“The PDP did not send anybody to go and misbehave. Our chairman’s son is up to age. Assuming he is to go to jail, they will not come and jail the national chairman because he did not send him. 
“Mahmud is a man of age and he has his household; he has his family. Everybody should be left to account for his own position. So the party cannot just get up and start breathing down on them and begin to condemn them. They will be given equal opportunity to defend themselves in competent court of law.”
Jaja, however, added that the suspects remain innocent until proven guilty by a competent court of law. It is only when they are found guilty that the party would come up with a position on the issue, he said.   
“But for now, it would be absolutely premature and prejudicial for the party to begin to condemn them”, the party chief emphasised. 
On the threat by the House of Representatives to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan over non-implementation of the budget, Jaja said impeachment threats are not new in democracies. 
He acknowledged  that the Reps may have their grievances, even as he admitted that President Jonathan also may have made errors that could warrant the threat.
But Jaja said although the PDP controls a majority in the House, the party would not make any attempt to impose any position on the legislators.
The PDP, he said, has made plans to look into the grievances of the legislature and the position of the President. 
This, he said, is with the view to resolving the issue in the best interest of democracy and the Nigerian people. He added that as far as the party is concerned, there is no threat whatsoever. 
“It is not the first time any President would be threatened with impeachment; not only in this country. In America, several Presidents had been threatened with impeachment in the past and what the PDP is doing is to take up the process,” Jaja said.


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