PDP lambast Eboyin Gov. For spending Billions on Welcoming Tinubu’s wife while teachers languish in hunger, projects abandoned
Major opposition party in Nigeria People’s the Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has lambasted the APC – led government of Ebonyi state over the government’s extravagant spending of the Ebonyi people’s money on what they tagged things that don’t matter to the Ebonyi society.
The Ebonyi chapter of the PDP stated that the APC led government spent lavishly on the welcoming of President Tinubu’s wife whereas the major areas that need urgent attention have been either completely ignored.
A statement issued made available to journalists on behalf of the party by a social media influencer and a media consultant, Mr Nwoba Chika Nwoba stated that the PDP has watched the government of Ebonyi State under Governor Nwifuru recently and currently spending billions on frivolous projects and the one that just took place which is the hosting of the wife of the president of Nigeria is more disturbing.
Mr Nwoba, also explained that the PDP doesn’t have a issues with hosting the president’s wife, but with the amount of public money that was was lavished into it when the people of the state groan in hunger and abject poverty. Adding 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.
According to the statement “The People’s 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.”
