Attai Audu Jos.
The Publicity Secretary of All Progressive Congress of Plateau state Sylvanus Namang has condemned in it’s entirety the Plateau PDP
usual fictitious scripts and falsehood against the government of Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state on the Management of the state resources.
Namang in a statement in Jos on Monday which was made available to Daily Independent accused Plateau PDP leadership of issuing reckless releases ostensibly aimed at demarketing the ever focused and hardworking Governor of the state, Simon Bako Lalong and the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state.
According to Namang, “The APC would have ignored these display of rascalism and total disregard for decorum and libellous scripts by the party’s so- called image maker who is unmindful of appending his signature on any gabage prepared for him by some paid commercial junk writers posing as journalists.”
However, he said the APC is compelled by the need of not allowing gullible minds to believe that lies told by the PDP many times could easily be passed for the truth.
“More importantly, the PDP in the state is being hunted and haunted by its past as demonstrated by its spurious and unsubstantiated allegations in its 20th June Press release titled ” Of Governor Lalong’s Rising Corruption Profile and Insensitivity”
” What it did wrongly and what it failed to do while in office for eight years and which the APC government since 2015 has been doing its best to correct, has been a source of sleepless night for the PDP.
Its grandstanding which is boundless should not be allowed to persist as our people deserve the right to know the difference between fiction and realities hence this response”
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Namang charged the PDP to be more concerned with the issue of its shooting itself on the foot which led to its non participation in the last local government election an issue which still dangles like the sword of damocles. ‘”
“We are watching keenly the manipulation and all the desperate antics by the party to deceive the electoral umpire to believe that all is well with it even in the face of its multiple and ceaseless litigations which still put its fate on the edge. “
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According to Namang, If the PDP is a responsible party, it should be concerned about putting its house in order rather than embarking on a journey in a wonderland.
“Now to the issues raised by the PDP which we feel should be put in their proper perspective. “
The PDP in Plateau state is notorious for quoting outrageous and unsubstantiated figures purportedly to blackmail the government of the day.
First, it alleged that the APC government in 2015 spent a whooping N11, 476, 000 000 on fertiliser which was contracted on 5th August 2015 to POPULAR FOODS LIMITED AND MBS MERCHANTS LIMITED which it claimed only 1250 bags an equivalent of two trucks were supplied!
In another twist, it stated that no single bag was supplied to date.
This is nothing but a grand deception. This was supposed to be three months into the APC administration in the state whose monthly allocation hovered between N2billion. “
Namang queries how feasible could about five months revenue allocation to the state be spent on fertiliser purchase only three months into its tenure as alleged by the spendthrift PDP government which handed over only N96m to it? “
” For the records, the fertiliser expenditure and distribution to the end users in the state for the 2015 farming season and other seasons for that matter, were carried out in the most transparent manner.
MBS Merchants Limited was on 5th August 2015 awarded a contract for the supply of 300 trucks of fertiliser made up each of 150 trucks of NPK and Urea at the unit cost of N6,250/bag totalling N1,125 000 000.00 which it supplied.
POPULAR FOODS LIMITED was awarded a contract for the supply of 350 trucks made up of 175 trucks of Urea and 175 trucks of NPK at the unit price of N6,250/ bag at the sum of N1, 312, 500, 000.00″
Namang said the exercise was carried out by the state ministry of agriculture in a very transparent manner through ward heads and security agencies.
“All transactions were carried out with bank guarantee by the UBA. The store receipt vouchers, SRV are available for Plateau PDP which thrives in frivolities or to anybody who cares to verify.”
“Under the new APC government, a contract was awarded to Kifiano Global Concepts whose owner is now a defector to the PDP to supply official vehicles to the governor, his deputy, principal officers of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries at the cost of N1, 210, 199, 700. 00. in order to enable government functionaries perform their function.”
He wondered why PlateauPDP is irked by the zero potholes project of the Governor Simon Bako -led Rescue Administration saying. Under its watch, potholes took over the entire Jos and Bukuru metropolis while over N50 Billion of over N70Billion it claimed it spent on road construction were concentrated in their principal’s domain where some of the roads which were nylon- tarred don’t have vehicles plying them till date.
” What the Lalong administration did to address this inconvenience to motorists and the lopsidedness was the earmarking of N525, 675, 696. 00 for the rehabilitation of 24.4 km of roads by the Jos Metropolitan Development Board under direct labour and not 4 km roads as alleged at N500 Million to a family member.
The roads covered all parts of Jos and Bukuru metropolis.
We don’t blame the PDP as it was and still is the party of family and friends,a subject which we reserve for future discourse .
The PDP assaulted the sensibilities of the very knowledgeable people of Plateau state when it alleged that during Lalong’s first year in office the government wasted N97 Billion without being accounted for.
Namang noted that Lalong’s government inherited a debt of N101 Billion which it has been trying its best to settle, having defrayed arrears of eight months salary and nine months pension/gratuity left by the preceeding PDP administration.
He added that the PDP in the State, as part part of its being hunted and haunted by its past, left a legacy of nepotism, clannishness and squandermenia on its trail and would obviously frown at genuine legacies which the current government wants to leave.
” The Lalong administration under the well conceived “Lalong Legacy” in 2018, awarded to Bleneson Services Nigeria Limited contract for the construction of 8No. Primary schools 6No. Secondary schools and 6No. Hospitals at the cost of N59,883, 614, 363.13 and that
On 24th August 2020, the government decided to re-scope the project at the cost of N29, 999,998,626.97 due to the current economic realities and that.
the contract was terminated due to poor performance by the contractor and .
was reawarded to United Integrated Ltd on 17th June 2022 at the cost of N 26,611 202,408.73 after careful assessment and deduction of the work executed by the past contractor.
“Instead of commending the government for the bold step it took in terminating the contract, the PDP is ironically blaming it.”
However,Namang said APC is amenable to genuine criticism instead of the destruction antics and distraction which is the bane of the ailing PDP on the Plateau .
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