
The National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle has demanded that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, should identify and name leaders of the opposition collecting N50 million from the President Bola Tinubu administration.
He said failure to do this, the former VP should immediately apologize to opposition leaders over claims that they are taking funds from the ruling party.
It had been reported that Atiku had recently claimed that the Tinubu Government is paying some opposition members/leaders N50m to destabilise the opposition parties.
Dantalle, who was a guest on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today, asked Atiku to apologise to the opposition leaders over the bribery claims.
“You have to be careful what you say so that you don’t unnecessarily hit up the polity.
“Yes, you have your information as Atiku Abubakar, but that is not enough for you to come out and say that all oppositions, or all members of the opposition family, are collecting N50 million,” he said.
As far as I know, my party the Allied People’s Movement and today, I am managing the Secretariat of the umbrella body of all the political parties in Nigeria, there is no national chairman, no leader anywhere collecting any money that I know.
“If you are coming out to say, okay, fine, so, so and so are collecting the money, to give a lead to what you are saying, it is different.
“You have succeeded in creating mutual suspicion. So what I think Atiku Abubakar should do, with all due respect, is to either apologize publicly to opposition leaders in totality, the same way he made this allegation, or he identify and mention opposition leaders who are involved in this rubbish.
But for us in the Inter Party, Advisory Council, we are not aware of what Atiku is insinuating. Sincerely.
“Everything and anything is possible in politics. But what I’m saying, I’m restricting this to the Inter Party Advisory Council, that’s the 19 registered political parties that I know today, there is no such sign that anybody has collected N50m.
“I’ve Been speaking with the leaders of all the other opposition parties. I’ve spoken to the national chairman of SDP, I’ve spoken to national chairman of YPP, I’ve spoken to national chairman of PRP, national chairman of AA, national chairman of NRM and everybody seemed to be angry.