The Niger state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the immediate past administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spent the sum of N800 billion accrued to the state in eight years without tangible development to show for it.
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Today.ng reports that the allegation was made by the state chairman Mohammed Gawu Imam, on Tuesday, January 19, during a briefing with journalists.
Speaking after the 24 elected chairmen on the platform of the APC received their certificate of return, he said the development had made the PDP unpopular in the state and made it easier for his party to win any election in the state.
Imam, who denied the allegation made by the PDP, that the local government election was rigged insisted that the abysmal performance of PDP in the state could not have been tolerated by the people.
“The PDP has just become the opposition. We have been in the opposition for the past 16 years. We know what it is to be in opposition. Opposition does not mean just making reckless statements. What projects have they done to think that they can stage a comeback? I give you a simple fact; N800 billion was received in Niger State, where is the sign of N800 billion in Niger State? There is no water, no heath facilities and no development,” he said.
The chairman revealed that according to eight years records, the PDP government only released N400 million to the education sector and the administration failed to pay counterpart fund for Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for three years from 2013 to 2015.
Imam also alleged that the PDP administration left behind lots of problems and debts, aside the empty treasury. He stated that so many uncompleted projects were left behind, which the people have now realised that “there was hope in APC.”
Meanwhile, the chairman Niger State Independent Electoral Commission, Alhaji Mohammed Danlami Abubakar has given certificate of return to all the 24 local government chairmen elected over the weekend, while he postponed Suleja’s election to this weekend.
Meanwhile, as the PDP is striving to get its feet back in Benue state, former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has asked his Benue south constituents to be steadfast just as he promised not to disappoint them no matter the circumstances.
Senator Mark told the PDP women group who visited him at his Abuja residence ahead of the forthcoming rerun election that he is irrevocably committed to the development of Idoma land and Nigeria at large.
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