The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that Wednesday’s rejection
by the All Progressives Congress, APC, senators of N5,000 monthly
stipend, underscored the “monumental hypocrisy” of their party in
getting to power by means of deceit and false promises to Nigerians.APC
had promised payment of N5,000 to unemployed Nigerians as a social
security package during electioneering campaign.
PDP’s National
Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Thursday said the
development was a clear confirmation that the APC was 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 APCand 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.“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 in 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.
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