#Dasukigate| You’re on your own, PDP BoT tells Bello, Bafarawa, others

The Board of Trust­ees, (BoT) of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party, (PDP) would not lend its voice in defending or pleading for any chieftain of the party who was found guilty in the ongoing investigation of diversion of fund meant for arms purchase to con­tain insurgency in the North-east.
Secretary of the party Board of Trustees, Sena­tor Walid Jubrin made the declaration while speaking with newsmen yesterday in Abuja.

During the week, a for­mer Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda and five others were arraigned by the Economic and Finan­cial Crimes Commission (EFCC,) before Justice Pe­ter Afen of the Federal Cap­ital Territory (FCT) High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 22-count charge bordering on conspiracy, bribery, abuse of office and criminal breach of trust.
Yuguda, was charged alongside with retired Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser; Shuaibu Salisu, a former Director of Finance and Administration, Office of the National Security Ad­viser; Attahiru Dalhatu Ba­fawara, a former governor of Sokoto State; Sagir At­tahiru, his son and Dalhatu Investment Limited.
Saturday Sun findings revealed that former acting National Chairman of the party, Dr Haliru Bello is also being investigated over alleged diversion of fund meant for arm purchase into the party presidential cam­paign fund.
Incidentally, Bello is the acting chairman of the party Board of Trustees.
But Jubrin told newsmen that the BoT, being the con­science of the main opposi­tion party would not support whoever must have erred on corruption as he noted that the law must take its course.
Jubrin said: "You see, the Board of Trustees, as the conscience of the party and by extension the whole par­ty, the PDP we don't support corruption.
" Whoever erred on cor­ruption in Nigeria should be dealt with, but we don't want selective justice. Any­body that goes wrong, it isn't only in PDP that you have corrupt people, and this Dasukigate, is one as­pect that this party will not go against.