Buhari Responsible For Workers Pay Cut – PDP |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that Nigerians should hold the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) responsible for the country’s economic doldrums, which has led to a move to slash Workers’ salary.

The PDP submitted that the attempt by the APC to deny the public declaration by the Federal Government to slash Workers’ salaries, has confirmed that it is, indeed, the mastermind of the obnoxious policy.

In a statement, in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, maintained that the frenzy by the APC in hastily assuming the position of the mouthpiece of the Buhari Presidency, exposes a panic measure, symptomatic of being caught in its usual act.

“Of course, hardened oppressors and political predators always resort to disgraceful and shameless lies when caught in the act.

“That explains why the APC could expect Nigerians to forget, in a space of five days, the public declaration by the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed a review of Workers’ salaries, as well as the merging of Agencies of Government.

“Perhaps the lying APC should be reminded how the Minister, at a public function organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Abuja, last Wednesday, unambiguously declared that there were moves to cut workers’ salaries.

“In the Minister’s words, “Mr. President has directed that the salaries committee that I Chair, work together with the Head of Service and other members of the Committee to review the Government payrolls in terms of stepping down on costs”.

“It is instructive to remind that the Minister’s declaration was immediately condemned by Labour Unions and other well-meaning Nigerians, who described the move as unacceptable under the current excruciating economic situation.

“It is, therefore, absurd and exposes a desperate diversionary measure for the culpable APC to attempt to distort the facts by claiming that  it was the PDP that alleged the plans to slash Workers’ salaries, when it was publicly announced by the Federal Government.

“This attempt by the APC to divert attention from the moves by its Government to slash salaries of Workers only goes to validate our intelligence that the APC is behind the plots.

“It is clear that the APC is now overweighed by the burden of being exposed, but resorting to lies and diversionary measures cannot sway Nigerians.

“Now that the APC is speaking for Mr. President in his manifest failure and anti-people policies, we charge Nigerians to hold the APC, as a party, responsible for any salary cut.

“Nigerians should also hold APC accountable for the economic strangulation, as well as the escalated kidnapping, bloodletting and worsened insecurity in our country under the Buhari administration.

“Our party restates our stance that the lying APC and its Government must rescind the move to slash the salaries of Workers.

“Instead, the APC should get its leaders to return the over N15 trillion they stole from the National coffers as well as get more competent hands to manage our ailing economy.”