The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has noted the release of
over N804 billion from the nation’s coffers as bailout to states and
local governments across the country.
The party said it believes that the sum will go a long way in
alleviating the sufferings of the Nigerian workers in various states of
the federation, most of whom have been without their wages for some
months.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on
Tuesday said the party however “notes that a significant amount of the
bailout came from savings accumulated in the Excess Crude Account handed
over to the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC’s administration
by the past PDP-led administration.
“This development is in clear contradiction to the earlier impression
given by President Buhari to Nigerians and the international community
that they should not expect much from his administration in its first
one hundred days because according him, upon assumption of office, he
met a virtually empty treasury.
“We want to believe that given the President’s release of such huge
amount, he may have realized that he was earlier misdirected on the
actual financial state of the nation at the time he took over. In this
regard, we expect the President, as a respected statesman to do the
needful to correct that erroneous impression.
“Furthermore, we expect President Buhari’s APC administration as
direct beneficiary of this savings initiated by past PDP administrations
to appreciate the strategic importance of always saving for rainy days
and as such guarantee prudent and transparent management of the nation’s
resources now under its care.”
The party charged the APC as a “party in government to put its house
in order, desist from injecting confusion and distracting the President
from settling down to form a government and face the enormous challenges
of governance, especially the implementation of his long list of
campaign promises to Nigerians”.
It said Nigerians are no longer interested in insults, tirades and
propaganda but in actions and policies that would move the nation
forward, a stance the APC has failed to recognize.
(Premium Times)
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