PDP Contradicts To President Buhari
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that money which would be released for paying salaries to states and local governments across the country are savings by the previous governments.
President Muhammadu Buhari has recently approved the release of over N804 billion from the nation’s coffers to assist in the payment of workers’ salaries across Nigeria.
It should be also noted that Bukola Saraki, Senate President, claimed that widespread corruption is the reason reason why some state governors are unable to pay their workers’ salaries.
The PDP in statement signed by Chief Olisa Metuh, party’s National Publicity Secretary, said that the sum will go a long way in easing the sufferings of the Nigerians workers in different states of the country, most of whom have been without their salaries for some months.
Meanwhile, the PDP “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 PDP further called on the ruling party to put National Assembly in order, stop injecting confusion and distracting Buhari from settling down to form a government and face the big challenges of governance, particularly the putting into practice long list of campaign promises to Nigerians.
The party added that Nigerians are no longer interested in insults, tirades and propaganda but in actions and policies that would move Nigeria forward, a stance the APC has failed to recognize.
President Muhammadu Buhari has recently approved the release of over N804 billion from the nation’s coffers to assist in the payment of workers’ salaries across Nigeria.
It should be also noted that Bukola Saraki, Senate President, claimed that widespread corruption is the reason reason why some state governors are unable to pay their workers’ salaries.
The PDP in statement signed by Chief Olisa Metuh, party’s National Publicity Secretary, said that the sum will go a long way in easing the sufferings of the Nigerians workers in different states of the country, most of whom have been without their salaries for some months.
Meanwhile, the PDP “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 PDP further called on the ruling party to put National Assembly in order, stop injecting confusion and distracting Buhari from settling down to form a government and face the big challenges of governance, particularly the putting into practice long list of campaign promises to Nigerians.
The party added that Nigerians are no longer interested in insults, tirades and propaganda but in actions and policies that would move Nigeria forward, a stance the APC has failed to recognize.
