By Aideloje Ojo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger state has accused the state Governor, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of squandering over N200 million in celebrating the 7th anniversary of his administration in Abuja.
The party in a statement issued yesterday in Minna by its state publicity secretary, Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, insisted that wasting such huge amount of money in celebrating democracy outside the state was a demonstration that the administration had failed the people.
The statement said: “That the Chief Servant fully aware that the administration has nothing to tell the people about his performance despite the huge monthly allocations it has collected running into billions of naira, ran away to abroad to hide his shame while his deputy, Ahmed Ibeto, led other aides to embark on the Abuja jamboree.”
“On May 29, a day set aside to be celebrated as democracy day where leaders are expected to tell the electorates what they have been able to accomplish with their money within the period under review, the over four million people of Niger state woke up to their disappointment and disbelieve that the PDP led administration of Governor Aliyu had moved the seat of power to Abuja for that the government called “interactive session on the seven years of Governor Babangida Aliyu as governor of Niger state.”
The party argued that while governors in their respective states took time to showcase their giant strides in all sphere of life in the development of their people in the last four to seven years, the situation in Niger state was different adding that the state was like a ghost town with nothing to show or tell the people about his achievements in the last seven years.
The publicity secretary wondered if Governor Aliyu has become the governor of Abuja and if he was elected into office by the people of Abuja that warranted relocating the seat of power to Abuja to celebrate democracy day.
