By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA:Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the National Assembly to immediately summon the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to appear together before its investigative committee under oath, so that Nigerians can finally hear one truthful account of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council PFIPC accounts scandal.
In a statement issued Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC said the demand became necessary following conflicting testimonies by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation OAGF and the CBN before the House of Representatives, which he said had exposed a government trapped by its own contradictions.
Atiku said the contradictory accounts pointed to the beginning of a cover-up, noting that both institutions could not simultaneously be telling the truth.
“This is where the cover-up appears to begin. One institution denied authorising the opening of the PFIPC accounts and alleged forgery. Another, before the representatives of the Nigerian people, stated that the accounts were opened on the directive of the Accountant-General after due process was followed. Both accounts cannot be true,” he said.
