The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Presidency of seeking to use the suspension of Malam Lamido Sanusi Lamido as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to divert attention from the allegation of missing $20 billion oil money.

In a statement issued in Lagos by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the way the Presidency had been campaigning to malign Sanusi, using the report of the obscure Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, showed that it was working hard to sweep the issue of the missing funds under the carpet and punish Sanusi for daring to expose the fraud.

It said if the Federal Government had used half the energy it deployed to discredit Sanusi towards the investigation of the missing oil funds, the monumental corruption case would have been solved by now.

“Irrespective of the tepid and unconvincing denial by the Presidency, it is clear that the main reason the presidency moved against Sanusi is because he blew the lid on the $20 billion funds which the NNPC allegedly failed to remit to the Federation account.

“Fortunately, discerning Nigerians are not hoodwinked by the Presidency’s choreographed mudslinging against a whistle blower, and the sponsored campaign that amounts to shooting the messenger just because his message is not palatable.

“While the Presidency has chosen to pull the word over the eyes of Nigerians over the missing oil funds, we call on the national Assembly to get to the bottom of Sanusi’s allegation and save Nigerians from a rapacious and a rampaging cabal that is hell bent on bringing Nigeria to its knees through runaway corruption”, APC said.

It said the Federal Government should charge Sanusi to court, if indeed it was convinced of the veracity of the allegations, instead of convicting him on the pages of newspapers and mob-lynching him through paid hatchet men.

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