Jonathan is deeply corrupt – Baraje
The faction of Peoples Democratic Party loyal to the Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the high level of corruption in the administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The Abubakar Kawu Baraje led “New PDP released a statement in Abuja, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Chukwuemeka Eze, the faction drew attention to the massive scale of officially-induced oil theft, the dwindling returns from oil and massive looting going on at the federal level as evidence that Nigeria was on the brink of economic collapse.
“One manifestation of this is the Federal Government’s inability to pay states their share of the Federal Allocation since 
July. The last time that states were paid was for part of July.”
“The implication of this unfortunate development is that the 36 states have become impoverished and unable to meet up with basic obligations, including the payment of workers’ monthly salaries, which many of the states have been unable to do due to lack of funds.”
“Let us ponder this: If states cannot pay their contractors – not to talk of entering into new contracts – if states cannot pay their workers because there is no money to pay them, what could result is a huge social catastrophe that will add to the social, economic and political inferno already ravaging Nigeria today.
“All these portend very grave danger for our dear country as youth and labour restiveness appears imminent.”
“Ironically, while the masses suffer, government officials continue to feed fat, using various guises to fritter away our common patrimony,” Baraje said, adding that Nigerian leaders’life of opulence had blinded them to the realities of the monumental suffering to which the masses were being subjected on a daily basis.
The factional PDP noted that the arrears had continued to mount daily. “As at today, the states are being owed N336 bn, with the N75bn being the balance of the July 2013 arrears, N121 bn from June augmentation and over N90bn as July augmentation.
“Where has all the money gone? For an instance, the Central Bank of Nigeria had revealed that the country earned a total of N1.05 trn in July, but surprisingly, the minister had not been able to pay states their due statutory allocations. Where are the billions of dollars accruable from daily crude oil sales?
