OKUNADE ADEKUNLE
The
All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for
coming to the aid of the long-suffering Nigerian workers with a
multi-billion-naira package.
The
party aid the aid will not only ensure
that all arrears of salaries owed by many states across the country are
immediately paid, but will also make it easier for the states to meet their
monthly salary obligations henceforth.
In
a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC said it was particularly delighted that the
President has shown that he is truly the father of the nation by eschewing
partisanship in approving the intervention fund for all the states, irrespective
of which parties they belong to.
“We
say this because when states were financially handicapped during the tenure of
the last federal government, opposition states were hung out to dry why states
belonging to the then ruling PDP got generous bailouts,” it said.
APC
said by his action, President Buhari has practicalized his deep understanding
of the essence of governance which, more than anything else, is the about the
well being of the citizenry.
The
party said worthy of note and commendation is the fact that the special
intervention fund approved by President Buhari was packaged without any
external borrowing, despite the paucity of funds occasioned by the fall in the
price of crude oil and the unprecedented profligacy of the immediate past administration
that dried out the pot of national resources.
It
said so early in the life of his administration, President Buhari is walking
his talk by showing that with prudence, financial discipline, plugging
financial leakages and a deep sense of patriotism, even the nation’s dwindling
resources can still be more effectively utilized for the benefit of Nigerians,
rather than be looted by thieving public officials who abuse their office.
APC
described as uncharitable and a clear indication that shame has taken flight
the situation in which those who created the rot that is now being cleared by
President Buhari are the same ones daring to point accusing fingers at the
government that inherited their rot.
“The
PDP that spent the past 16 years plundering and pillaging Nigeria has boasted
that the Nigerian people will soon come, cap in hand, to beg them to return to
power. What delusion! What arrogance! Who presided over the looting and the
mismanagement of public funds that made it impossible for the nation to absorb
the shock of the falling oil prices? Who depleted the Excess Crude Account
(ECA) without authorization? Who has degraded the standard of living of
Nigerians?” the party queried.
APC
said the multi-pronged package approved by President Buhari includes the
sharing of about $2.1 billion sourced from the LNG’s payment to the Federation
Account; and a CBN-packaged special intervention fund that will offer financing
to the states, ranging between N250 billion to N300 billion, as a soft loan
available to states to access for the purposes of paying backlog of salaries.
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