Blame Wike for your pathetic situation – APC tells pensioners, others
– Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has joined the league of governors in Nigeria who have not been able to pay salaries
– The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted and told the civil servants, pensioners and others affected how to act
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Governor Nyesom Wike is to be blamed for the failure to pay civil servants, pensioners and contractors, in Rivers state.
In a statement signed by the state chairman, Dr Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and made available to NAIJ.com, the party said it would be wrong to lay the blame at the doorstep of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC-led federal government.
The APC saysGovernor Wike should be held responsible for his inability to pay salaries
The party said: “We as a political party truly sympathise with Rivers civil servants, pensioners and contractors over their current travails.
“However, we wish to disagree with insinuations in some quarters in the state that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC-led federal government are responsible for this unfortunate situation.
“The truth is that Governor Wike and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are solely responsible for the woes of Rivers workers, retires and contractors, by refusing to pay them for the past eight months.”
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The statement released on Monday, November 14, noted that the state presently collects the highest revenue from the federation account each month.
“Apart from this, Rivers generates the highest Internal Revenue after Lagos and Kano states.
“In addition, Wike has borrowed a whopping sum of N150 million since he assumed office on May 29, last year without anything tangible as an achievement to show for all these funds so far collected.
“Sadly, Wike has squandered all these funds on things that have little or nothing to do with the good of Rivers State and its people.
“Rather than to pay civil servants, pensioners and contractors, he has chosen to waste scarce resources on hosting all manner of conferences, sponsoring PDP candidates running for election in other states; hosting failed PDP conventions; promotion of bloodbath, insecurity and associated evils in Rivers State and bribing people everywhere.
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“He prefers spending the money he should use to pay salaries and uplift the lives of Rivers state people and prefers to flex muscles with Abuja in his bid to be seen as the PDP leader in the country.”
The party advised the people of the state to stop suffering in silence but continuously demand good governance from the “ill-prepared Wike administration and to hold it fully responsible for the monumental suffering which he has inflicted on the people of the state since he bulldozed his way into the Government House.
“The rerun election coming up on 10th December, 2016 is an appropriate opportunity for the Rivers state people to express their anger on this misfortune and ill-prepared administration of Chief Nyesom Wike by voting against PDP candidates.”
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