MINNA – T he Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted Governor Abubarkar Sani Bello of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger...
MINNA – The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted Governor Abubarkar Sani
Bello of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State for
re-nominating some past commissioners, who were rated as ‘bunch of
failures’ as cabinet members.
Bello had last week submitted to the state House of
Assembly 17 names as commissioner nominees, including nine returnees
from his first term and 18 Special Advisers the PDP said would make no
difference in solving the challenges questions in the state.
The state PDP chairman, Tanko Beji, in a statement made
available to journalists in Minna over the weekend, also accused the APC
government of wasting over N10 billion in the past five years on
nothing.
“We received with utmost disbelief the much anticipated
list of commissioner nominees by the Niger State government, coming five
good months after second term inauguration of Governor Sani Bello, is
rather a list of below average performance men and women”.
The list, according to the PDP, included persons the Governor himself had scored as ‘failures’ in his first term of four years.
“We in PDP are most appalled that the same men and women
who superintended over the construction of a N2 billion wasteful fence
around the Government House, N3 billion on maintenance of the N1.7
billion (built and equipped by Babangida of PDP) brand new, Jummai
Babangida Aliyu Neonatal Hospital Extension Minna, wasted N4.7 billion
for the damaged Minna-Abuja, Tegina-Birnin Gwari Road maintenance,
wasteful investment summit that yielded zero investments but cost Niger
State hundreds of millions,” the statement said.
The statement further said, “We recall with pains that the
Governor had wasted millions of Naira and useful time traveling up and
down within and outside the country, signing all types of Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) running into hundreds of millions of Naira without a
single one executed.
“Given what we have seen so far in the last five wasted
years, and several billions of Naira disappeared with no single project
worth N2 billion physically or visible, Governor Bello and his party,
the APC, will do well to go on a crash course in any of the PDP states
and take a quick glimpse into the following documents developed by the
PDP, vision 3:2020 and moving forward Action plan.
“The promised and failed power plants come to mind, the
MoU with broad-based communication to train 500 youths, MoU with Dangote
Sugar, MoU with a Hungarian investor, MoU with Vyonarc Dev. Ltd, MoU
with Roche, MoU with Bill and Melinda Gates, MoU with FGN on Zungeru
water, UN- Habitat agreement, Fish MoU with All State’s investment ltd,
MoU with USADF and many more numerous to mention”.
Beji took a swipe at the Bello administration for its
inability to pay the N30,000 minimum wage, saying, “The PDP cannot in
anyway understand that people who claim after screening of the civil
servants and paying several Billions from the Finance Ministry as
salaries has now come up with a tactics to frustrate the implementation
of minimum wage.”
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