'Dark Sides' Of Buhari's Nigeria Air Project - PDP shares shocking revelations
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday said President Muhammadu Buhari should “perish
the thought of trying to use the unveiling of a nonexistent national
carrier to beguile Nigerians now that election is around the corner"
PDP claimed that the new national carrier was a plot by the Buhari’s Presidency to allegedly siphon billions of naira.
The party said it was unfortunate that “having run out of fake promises and not having any development project to parade,”
Buhari and his party, All Progressives Congress, APC, have “now
resorted to international kite-flying aimed at hoodwinking unsuspecting
Nigerians.”
In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition party said.
“Is it not comical that while other nations are unveiling and
rolling out real planes, the Buhari administration, in a most hilarious
manner, is ‘unveiling’ drawings of an airplane, name, logo and imaginary
routes of a nonexistent fleet, as our national carrier, in faraway
London?
“What President Buhari and his handlers fail to understand is that Nigerians can see through their fraud and lies.
“Apart from drawings of airplanes, there are no structures to
indicate that a new airline, billed to commence operation in December
this year, is being set up; there are no offices, no recruitment of
personnel and no form of ground activity anywhere in the country.
“Does it not smack of pure scam that less than six months to
commence operations, the supposed new airline has not even started the
process of licensing, even when it takes a minimum of six months for a
new airline to obtain Air Operating License and three months to develop
its manuals?
“Furthermore, every discerning mind can see through the lies in
the announced private sector funding, as the Buhari administration has
been unable to list any private investor it has gone into negotiation or
signed any form of deal with in the said project.
“If the Buhari administration is not on a fantasy trip to
beguile Nigerians and pave further ways for its humongous corruption, it
should have focused on our existing national carrier structures, in
addition to three operating airlines, already taken over by the Asset
Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).
“It is therefore clear that the entire project is a huge scam
and that the five percent government funding is a direct ploy by the
cabal at the Buhari Presidency to siphon billions of naira, using a
phantom project.”