The Inter-Party Advisory Council
(IPAC) has accused the Nigeria’s National Assembly of frustrating the change
agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
IPAC, the umbrella of all
registered political parties in the country, said actions of the National
Assembly members had become a “cog in the wheel of political and economic
progress” of the nation.
In a statement yesterday in
Abuja, IPAC Chairman, who doubles as the National Chairman of Accord Party
(AP), Alhaji Mohammed Nalado, said it was wrong for some senators to call for
Buhari’s probe over his release of bailout funds to governors without
appropriation by the National Assembly.
He said members of the National
Assembly should understand the ruling party’s manifesto and cooperate with the
executive to actualise the agenda of alleviating the hardship being faced by
Nigerians rather than criticising government’s policies and decisions.
“All that the president did was
service to the people because it is not possible to allow people to stay one or
two years without salaries. There was news everywhere that some governors were
owing 15, 12 months, and how do you expect or allow people with families to
stay for that long without salary? Moreover, there was also economic recession
biting hard across the country then.
“The workers that the government
bailed out were in difficult situation because they had school fees, house rent
and other bills to pay, and this bailout was aimed to reduce crime and tension
because some of them could have resorted to criminal activities if not for the
government’s intervention,” the statement said.
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