Following the public apology tendered by the leader of the PDP, Uche Secondus over the mismanagement of the country by the party during its years in power, the Presidency has shot back, stating that the apology was insincere.
These scathing remarks were made in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, in Abuja, on Friday.
Buhari stated that the only reason the PDP was sorry was because they no longer had access to the national resources to use for their own personal comforts.
The statement said; “It (PDP) plundered the national economy, and for a party that dismissed the anti-corruption war as a political witch-hunt, it is impossible to believe that its public apology comes from the bottom of the heart.”
The statement added: “Even desperate thieves apologise because they are caught and not because they are incapable of repeating the crime if they had another opportunity.
“We believe that the PDP should not only apologise for the imposition of candidates, and the culture of impunity, but must also come clean and acknowledge that they participated in large-scale corruption and massive diversions of public funds to private pockets while poverty was ravaging the ordinary Nigerians.
“We challenge individual PDP leaders to publicly and voluntarily tell Nigerians how much they stole and then agree to cough up their illegal acquisitions of wealth if they want their apology to be taken seriously.
“Apology borne by desperation to recapture power without a desire to admit how much they stole and the reluctance to return the loot is morally hollow. This goes beyond rebranding. Nigerians are not interested in brands. They want their money back.
“For such apology to gain acceptance, the offenders must first of all show remorse; then return that which was unlawfully taken or restore the damage caused the nation; and commit to never doing the wrong they did again. The PDP has done none of these for them to be taken seriously by anyone.”