Adamu Mu’azu, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has stated that the party would reclaim the five states it lost in 2013 after governors of the states defected to the opposition the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Adamu Mu’azu
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Tony Amadin, on Friday, March 2015, the chairman, said “the PDP is determined to claim back the states lost to carpet crossing and win all those states that have the potential for economic growth”.
According to Mu’azu, the defected governors have abandoned their direct duties concerning the governance of their states, instead they are concentrated on campaigning for the APC. As a result, it has led to the stoppage of most ongoing projects, particularly in the five states.
“Unfortunately for their new party and their desperation to become the ruling party, they have made little or no progress, thus leaving their states impoverished as they concentrate on spending their state’s meagre resources to support their party’s presidential election bid instead of providing dividends of democracy to the people.
“In Sokoto state no new project has been started or completed since Governor Maigatakarda Wammako switched to the APC. His Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari who remained in the PDP has complained severally to the National Chairman that the people of Sokoto are being shortchanged because of lack of active governance in the state.
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“The same goes for Rivers State, where the MonoRail venture of the state government has become a white elephant project while other infrastructure projects started when he was in the PDP has virtually been abandoned. Ditto to various abandoned road projects in the state capital and beyond. Before his defection, Amaechi and Akwa Ibom Governor Akpabio were involved in a healthy PDP-induced competition as some of the richest state Chief Executives and both governors reveled in the healthy competition,” he said.
Further in the statement Mu’azu noted that Akwa Ibom has overtaken Rivers in terms of the provision of democratic dividends, as well as the quality of governance.
“If you take the stadia the two governors built in their respective states for comparison it is easy to find the one looking more solid and of international quality. While Akpabio’s Uyo Stadium is a pride to behold, it is also of international standard. Amaechi’s stadium hasn’t got the quality as in most APC controlled states where the penchant for poor quality output is well known.”
Talking about states and infrastructure development the chairman said that every PDP state has got an airport no matter the size of its federation account. He added that even poorer states like Taraba and Kebbi have managed to construct impressive airports while the APC states like Zamfara do not have even a helipad.
According to Mu’azu, the APC administration in Zamfara has no desire to build an airport making it difficult for investment to come to the state.
At the end of the statement the PDP chairman concluded that mentioned above reasons explain why Nigerians should vote for the ruling party in the upcoming elections.
A day earlier in a statement made in Abuja, Mu’azu said that President Goodluck Jonathan has an already packaged marshal plan to rebuild the entire Northeast region.
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