Why APC Senators Rejected N5000 Stipend – PDP

Opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused senators on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) of acting out their party’s script by rejecting the N5,000 monthly stipend for unemployed youth which the APC promised Nigerians during electioneering.

PDP said the senator’s act underscores the monumental hypocrisy of their party in getting to power by means of deceit and false promises to Nigerians.

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Chief Olisa Metuh , the party’s national publicity secretary, in a statement on Thursday, October 5, said the development is a clear confirmation of the fact that the APC is a party of hypocrites, who never had the intentions of honouring any of their campaign promises.

“The PDP declares that it is absolutely obvious to all that the APC came to power riding on monumental lies and deceit in making promises they had no intentions to keep. All they wanted was to get into power and they achieved this with their lying tongues.

“Indeed, the unanimity displayed by the APC senators in rejecting the promised N5, 000 monthly welfare package, especially coming after their party and the Presidency had made futile efforts to distance themselves from it, further stresses the duplicitous spirit of the APC and its reprehensible insensitivity to the feelings and aspirations of Nigerians, especially the unsuspecting youths, women and the indigent, who they shamelessly swindled with false promises.

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“From the foregoing therefore, Nigerians should not expect any sincere action from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government on the other promises including monthly allowance to discharged but unemployed NYSC members, free meals and scholarship to school children, free houses, bringing the naira to the same value with the dollar.

“Our position remains that the APC has sufficiently confirmed to the world that they have a lot to learn on the leadership values of honesty, integrity, credibility and forthrightness.

“Finally, we invite Nigerians to note the powers amply vested on them by the constitution under a democracy as we urge them to stand on such powers and hold the APC and its government accountable for all their campaign promises,” the party said.

In another development, the PDP said it would resist any attempt by the APC to derail the peaceful conduct of the November 21 and December 5 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states respectively.

Prince Uche Secondus, the acting national chairman of the PDP, said on Tuesday, November 3, that to eliminate the role of money-bag politicians, the intention of the party was to make its primary elections zero expensive in order not to give room for inducing anybody.

The party, in a communiqué issued in Abuja on Thursday, October 29, after the confirmation of the ministerial nominees at the Senate plenary session, had equally raised concerns over what it described as undemocratic attitudes on the part of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

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