The
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has taking note of 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.
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