The National Coordinator, Presidential Support Committee, Senator Godswill Akpabio has insisted that considering the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari -led administration in office, Nigeria has no other better alternative than to give him another term.
Akpabio, who spoke with Journalists in Abuja, urged the South South people to reconsider their stand in planning to vote for the party that wants to sell the Nigeria National Petroleum Coporation(NNPC), and its other assets.
Atiku Abubakar, the PDP Presidential Candidate, has vowed to sell the NNPC, if voted into power, to break what he called ‘mafia’ in the corporation.
But Senator Akpabio said it will not be in the interest of the Niger Delta people for NNPC to be sold.
“Yes
I believe Nigerians can compare the difference between apple and
orange. The reality is that this president has done very well
considering the fact that he was able to take Nigeria out of recession.
“He
met ongoing projects on ground, such as the airports and the railways.
He completed and put them to use. Nigerians are clamoring for change,
better health care, better educational facilities and all those things
cannot happen when you spend almost 80 percent of resources on recurring
expenses like pension, salary arrears.
“So we must commend the
President and of course, if you take a look at what is happening on the
Lagos-Ibadan railway, you will be very impressed. Take a look at the
Abuja-Kano railway, some people now travel with rail to the North.
“The
power sector has improved from 2,500MW to 7000MW. So many things are
visible and the enabling environment is there in terms of law and order.
The fight against corruption has really been intensified and the good
thing is that it has now become a deterrent to any public official that
yes…, if you go out of your way to move your pocket forward instead
of your country or state, you will be held accountable.
“We in
the Niger Delta are very apprehensive. I don’t think that there is any
person in the South South who will go and vote for PDP. Even some of
them are trying to purchase votes because when you look at the major
policy document of the PDP today, they are talking about selling the
NNPC.
“What does the NNPC have? Is it the building? What NNPC
controls is the oil of the Niger Delta, oil wells, oil fields and all
those things come together with the land. I don’t see anybody from the
South South or any Niger Deltan, who will agree that the same way we
sold out Nigeria Airways and we became a laughing stock in the comity of
states in Africa is the same way NNPC should be sold.
“Look at
Kenya Airways, Ethopia Airline, Ghana Airline, South African Airways and
Nigeria has no single plane now called its own. We sold out our
Aluminium Smelter Company in Ikot Abasi, that provided thousands of jobs
and today that place is totally bare with over 690MW of electricity.
“We
sold out Oku Iboku Paper Mill in Akwa Ibom and our people are there
jobless. That massive structure is a waste. All those things combined
are things that frighten us when somebody talks about the sale of NNPC.
The sale of NNPC on its own simply means that the Niger Deltans are
going to be divested of not just their properties, not just the water
that they fish in, but the fact that they will become tenants in their
lands for the next 50 to 100 years. And people will come from outside,
maybe friends of the government, and possess their land.
“The election also is between integrity and others. The President has shown that he can give what belongs to Niger Delta to Niger Delta. He is even refunding monies that were used during my tenure to repair Federal roads and what we use to call Paris Club refund.
“We tried everything
under the PDP. We never had that money and I was a Governor and the FG
was owing my state over 145 Billion on federal roads and the building
of prisons and other things I had to intervene. I dualized federal
roads, built airport and today, federal government is refunding those
monies to the state.
“If you see a government that has shown
sincerity, it simply means that we are now talking about a question of
integrity and a question of postulation. We are postulating that if you
bring in a government that will sell your father’s land, that will sell
your oil wells and sell the waters that you use in fishing, then I can
conclude that there is no alternative to President Buhari.”
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