The Chairman, Senate Committee on
Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has
described the N-Power programme of the Buhari government as “propaganda”.
Abaribe, who doubles as Chairman,
South-East caucus in the Senate, also declared that the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) will return to power in 2019.
In a chat with Vanguard, Abaribe
said Nigerians should not be excited about the N-Power scheme.
”Where have they given it? I
have not seen any youth. I have sent people from my own senatorial zone for
them to show me where they have taken any of them”, he said.
“It is nothing but propaganda
that we simply see and bogus claims that we also always see from this
government,” he added.
On 2019 general elections, the
lawmaker stressed that the PDP “will take over power in 2019. And we have
worked out all our strategies and you are going to see it emerge and be
fulfilled very soon.”
On the controversy trailing the
$1 billion approval by the National Economic Council, NEC, to tackle insecurity
in the North-East, Abaribe assured that the
legislature will continue to support and fund the armed
forces.
He, however, raised some
questions about the fund.
”Where did the governors derive
the power to appropriate money? There is nowhere in the constitution where
governors have the power to appropriate money.
”And that’s where the problem
lies. Where did they get this power from? That it is just an illegal thing. And
if the governors claim that the money belongs to the three tiers of government,
so, how did the governors now become the people to appropriate for the federal
government and Local governments’ shares?
”I think what is just going on
is simply the same we have always seen in Nigeria where people perpetuate
impunity and because they are in the ruling party, people don’t want to admit
that they have gone the wrong way.
”I heard the vice president say
the other day ‘it is no longer for the northeast alone’. But of course, when
governor Obaseki was speaking, we heard him very clearly say, it is to fight
Boko Haram.
”That they are now trying to
run away from that and extend it to all over the place just tells you that the
initial concept was very flawed and they are just realizing it but of course,
cannot come out and tell Nigerian we are wrong, let us now do the right thing”,
he stated.
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