N5000 Stipend: PDP accuses APC of hypocrisy and deceit

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, slammed Senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of hypocrisy and acting a script of the party by rejecting the N5,000 monthly stipend the APC promised unemployed Nigerians.

The PDP in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said it was a monumental deceit on the part of the Senators for taking such a step on Wednesday when the APC during the electioneering campaigns, promised Nigerians.

The party noted that the development is a clear confirmation that the APC is a party of hypocrites who never had the intention of honouring their campaign promises.

“it underscores the monumental hypocrisy of their party in getting to power by means of deceit and false promises to Nigerians.

“The PDP declares that it is absolutely obvious to all that the APC came to power riding on monumental lies and deceit in making promises they had no intentions to keep. All they wanted was to get into power and they achieved this with their lying tongues.

“Indeed, the unanimity displayed by the APC senators in rejecting the promised N5, 000 monthly welfare package, especially coming after their party and the Presidency had made futile efforts to distance themselves
from it, further stresses the duplicitous spirit of the APC and its reprehensible insensitivity to the feelings and aspirations of
Nigerians, especially the unsuspecting youths, women and the indigent,
who they shamelessly swindled with false promises.

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“From the foregoing therefore, Nigerians should not expect any sincere action from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government on the other promises including monthly allowance to discharged but unemployed NYSC members, free meals and scholarship to school children, free
houses, bringing the naira to the same value with the dollar.

“Our position remains that the APC has sufficiently confirmed to the world that they have a lot to learn on the leadership values of honesty, integrity, credibility and forthrightness.

“Finally, we invite Nigerians to note the powers amply vested on them by
the constitution under a democracy as we urge them to stand on such powers and hold the APC and its government accountable for all their campaign promises.”

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