The
national leadership of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic
Party, has claimed credit for the money released by President Muhamadu
Buhari to states as bailout funds.
It said
the release of over N804billion from the nation’s coffers as bailout to
states and local governments across the country would go a long way in
alleviating the sufferings of the Nigerian workers in various states of
the federation, most of whom, it said, have been without their wages for
some months.
PDP
National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja
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’ administration
by the past PDP-led administration.
Metuh said it was however unfortunate that President Buhari had told
the international community and Nigerians that he might not be able to
perform in his first 100 days in office because he met almost an empty
treasury.
He said
the release of the funds by the President could have been an indication
that he(Presidrnt Buhari) was misdirected earlier on.
Metuh
said his party would be expecting the President to behave like a true
leader by correcting the first impression and statement he made
concerning the true situation of the treasury.
He said,
“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 realised 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.”
Metuh,
therefore, 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.
He added
that Nigerians “are no longer interested in insults, tirades and
propaganda but in actions and policies that would move the nation
forward,” a stance, he alleged, the APC has has failed to recognise.
Source: Punchng
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