The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has berated the All Progressives Congress, (APC) government in the state for spending taxpayers’ money on frivolities.
The party expressed dismay that the major areas that need urgent attention have been completely abandoned or treated with levity by the state government.
A statement issued on Saturday by the PDP chieftain, Mr Nwoba Chika Nwoba, said the government of Ebonyi State under Governor Francis Nwifuru has been spending billions on frivolous projects, the most recent being the hosting of the wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
He further said PDP doesn’t have a problem with hosting the President’s wife, but with the amount of public money that was sunk into it when the people of the state groan in hunger and abject poverty.
Nwoba revealed that the government is yet to pay teachers in Ebonyi State their October salaries despite being in the middle of the month of November 2024.
The statement reads, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State uses this opportunity to berate the APC-led government of Ebonyi State over the government’s penchant for spending Ebonyi people’s money on frivolities – things that don’t matter to the Ebonyi society for now, whereas the major areas that need urgent attention have been either completely abandoned or treated with levity.
“We have watched the government recently and currently spend billions on these frivolous projects and the one that just took place which is the hosting of the wife of the president of Nigeria is more disturbing.
“We don’t have problem with hosting the president’s wife, but with the amount of public money that was sunk into it when the people of the state groan in hunger and abject poverty.
“It bothers a sane mind a great deal to know that the government could recommission an airport project that had already been commissioned two years ago.
“Using the face of the President’s wife as a decoy to embark on the wasteful and theatric outing is what we frown at, more so as the government is yet to pay teachers in the state their October salaries yet in the middle of the month of November, 2024.
“This is a case of government’s inhumanity to its populace. It’s on this premise and more that we urge the government to backtrack from wasteful expenditures and begin to meet the people of the state at the points of their collective needs.
“It’s alarming also to note that the people of Ebonyi don’t feel the impacts of government yet in the face of the fiscal abundance the government swims in.
“The PDP in Ebonyi is bothered about all these inglorious events taking shape in the state and charges the administration of Gov. Nwifuru to rise to the mandate of tackling the immediate needs of the state and her people in this time of great economic distress.”
Efforts made to reach the Commissioner for lnformation and State Orientation, Engr Jude Okpor, were unsuccessful as he couldn’t respond to messages put across to him at the time of filing the report.
