UPN disowns Fasehun, accuses Him of Scheming to Rig Elections in PDP’s Favour
The Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) has insisted that Dr Federick Fasehun remains suspended from the party and does not represent its beliefs or stand.
The National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Sokoto, released a statement to journalists in Abuja, distancing itself from a recent statement credited to Fasehun in an effort to attack the person of the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
According to the statement, Fasehun allegedly accused Buhari of stealing N2.8 billion while the President-elect was head of state and founding the Boko Haram.
The UPN also called on security agencies to investigate Fasehun, saying: “We want to state unequivocally from the onset that Fasehun is living in borrowed time and could not be speaking for the UPN.
“His recent ranting in the media trying to disparage Gen. Buhari and the UPN’s governorship candidate in Lagos state, Mrs Modupe Onitin-Abiola, is nothing but a desperate and failed contractual attempt for cheap publicity.”
The party also accused Fasehun of signing a N3 billion contract from the Federal Government for the protection of NNPC pipelines against vandalism.
“Nigerians should not forget too soon that Fasehun collected a N3 billion contract from outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2015 general elections to secure NNPC pipelines from vandalism.
“UPN and patriotic Nigerians perceived the spurious contract was planned to purchase arms and destabilise the electoral process in the South-West in favour of PDP,” it said.
He further warned that anyone or body who those any business with Fasheun does so at his or her own risk.
