PFIPC scandal: ‘Gbajabiamila needs to step aside’ – SDP chairman

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Professor Sadiq Gombe, has called connected the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, to resign implicit the contention surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.

Gombe made the telephone on Thursday while speaking with journalists successful Abuja aft the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting.

According to him, Gbajabiamila should measurement speech some arsenic Chairman of the PFIPC and arsenic Chief of Staff to the President to let for an autarkic probe into the allegations surrounding the council.

“Gbajabiamila needs to measurement aside, not conscionable arsenic the president of this important committee, but besides from his presumption arsenic the Chief of Staff to the President. 

He represents 1 of the top institutions, which is the Presidency. The close happening to bash is for him to measurement speech for a due autarkic probe into the allegation and fto them beryllium beyond tenable uncertainty that helium is innocent,” Gombe said.

The SDP president besides criticised Gbajabiamila’s assignment to seat the committee connected authorities police, saying it was inappropriate for idiosyncratic facing allegations to pb specified an important nationalist assignment.

“How tin the President warrant mounting up 1 of the astir important committees successful the beingness of this medication and federation (state police) and announc...