The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Niger State Chapter, is taken aback at the Humongous figures the APC led Government of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has Consistently bandied around with nothing to show for it since 2015 when it came into being.
In a statement signed by the PDP Chairman in Niger State, Barrister Tanko Beji, the party said, “from the 2015 Supplementary budgets till date an estimated budget of about N807billion (Eight hundred hundred and Seven billion Naira) has been passed and signed into law with some years even having supplementary due to additional unexpected inflow of funds not captured in the budget.
“In 2016 APC Government of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello signed a budget appropriation of N85 billion, 2017 N116 billion signed into law, 2018 was N134 billion, 2019 was N164billion, 2020 was N155.4billion, 2021 N153.4billion and now a proposal of N198.2 has been submitted for the 2022 fiscal year budget”.
Beji added that, “all these humongous figures have yielded to naughts in the life of every day Nigerilites, the PDP has observed, no single motorable road within or with-out the state capital.
“No Portable water, street lights are off, Small businesses are dead, salaries are owed, loans are taken, pensioners are groaning and infrastructures are dead and General well being of masses are below standard, families now ration water, food and even payment of school fees”.
The PDP Chairman recalled that in 2020, the Niger State Assembly had to show anger over loads of monies appropriated with nothing to show.
FFurthermore, he said “we (PDP) believe the APC government led by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has set Niger state backwards ten years and it will require the combine effort of well meaning Nigerians, not just Nigerlites, to rescue Niger state from the clutches of Maladministration”.
“The PDP’s only prayer now is that the auto pilot Government should not crash land”.
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