The All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for the N804.7 billion intervention fund he approved for government workers who’ve been going without pay.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said it was particularly elated that Buhari has shown that he is truly the father of the nation by shunning 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 while states belonging to the then ruling PDP got generous bailouts.”
According to Vanguard, APC said by his action, President Buhari has practised his deep understanding of the essence of governance which, more than anything else, is about the well being of the citizenry.
The party said the intervention fund by Buhari was worthy of note and commendation because it was packaged without any external borrowing, despite the financial shortage 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.”
“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.
“History is repeating itself before our very eyes. Some 31 years ago, Buhari, then as a military head of state, also inherited a huge national rot similar to what has been bequeathed to it by the NPN government and had to approve 480 million Naira for the payment of arrears of workers’ salaries. Truly, the President is a man of destiny,” the party said.
“We thank Nigerians for voting the APC into power at the centre and for believing in us even when the horizon became hazy, not out of our making but because of the misdeeds of the past. By their relentless support for President Buhari and the APC, Nigerians have indeed demonstrated that what is worth fighting for is worth defending,” APC said.
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