In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it was particularly delighted that the president had shown that he was truly the father of the nation by eschewing partisanship and approving the intervention funds for all the states, irrespective of parties they belonged. “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 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got generous bailouts,’’ it said. The APC said by his action, President Buhari had practicalized his deep understanding of the essence of governance, which, more than anything else, was about the well being of the citizenry.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com.. The party said worthy of note and commendation was 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 was 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 could still be more effectively utilized for the benefit of Nigerians, rather than be looted by thieving public officials who abused their offices. The party described as uncharitable and a clear indication that shame had taken flight the situation in which those who created the rot that was now being cleared by President Buhari were the same ones daring to point 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!’’ the party stated. APC said the multi-pronged package approved by President Buhari included 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. “Also, the president has approved a debt relief programme that will help states restructure their commercial loans currently put at over N660 billion. The implication is that the life span of such loans will be extended, while reducing the states’ debt-servicing expenditures, thus leaving the states with enough resources – which otherwise would have been removed at source by the banks – to meet their monthly salary obligations, among others. “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 PDP, and had to approve N480 million for the payment of arrears of workers’ salaries. Truly, the president is a man of destiny,’’ the party said. It said with thousands of workers made destitutes by the frittering away of the commonwealth under a rapacious and wasteful PDP government now being given a new lease of life, their purchasing powers being boosted and the nation’s economy being reflated, the change which the president and his party promised the nation has just begun. ‘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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