Buhari's u-turn on N5000 - Gov Al-Makura speaks
Governor Al-Makura of Nasarawa state said nobody can challenge the decisions of President Buhari – The governor was reacting to criticisms over Buhari’s reversal on his electoral propmise – Buhari is at liberty to change his mind and take decisions, Al-Makura said The governor of Nasarawa state, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, said Nigerians cannot challenge the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari’s not to fulfill his government’s pledge of paying N5000 monthly allowances to unemployed citizens. Gov Al-Makura says nobody can challenge Buhari Briefing State House correspondents after meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday, February 29, the governor said Buhari had the right to review his party’s electoral promise, The Punch reports. He said: “The president is the person that can tell you precisely how he is working on promises and interventions that he has created by his ingenuity. And if at any point in time the president is reviewing that issue, I think he is the only person to that because what he is doing is in the best interest of the country. And so, it is not challengeable by anybody whatever his position.” Ahead of the 2015 presidential election, one of the electoral promises of Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) was that a monthly allowance of N5,000 will be paid to unemployed youths in the country. But, at the weekend, Buhari had during an interactive session in Saudi Arabia described the N5,000 stipend as largesse which was not on his priority list. He stated that he would rather channel resources into the building of infrastructure, education, agriculture and mining to create employment opportunities for able bodied young men. According to Al-Makura, if Buhari decided to change his mind over his electoral promise, it was for the good of the country based on prevailing realities. On what he discussed with Osinbajo, the Nasarawa governor said they talked about the security situation in his state and that of Benue state which had led to bloody clashes between herdsmen and farmers. On his part, the Imo state governor and chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha, said that the promise will be implemented one way or the other, The Nation reports.
He noted that more problems are sometimes created by physical cash, saying the president has saved the money for unemployed youths to produce further wealth. “The very poor people who have to ensure a lot of social inconveniences to pay school fees are no longer dong that, what has happened is that he has saved that money to produce further wealth, so if you keep money through that system, it creates more impact than physical cash,” Okorocha said. Buhari’s reversal on his electoral promise has been trailed with condemnable criticisms from many Nigerians. Meanwhile, Lai Mohammed, the information minister said Buhari has to downsize some of its campaign promises because the realities on ground are now different from what it was during the campaigning period. He explained that the price of crude was $100 a barrel then, but now it is $30 a
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I don't like that idea from onset. That was how SURE-P started only to help few corrupt individuals to become millionaire and billionaire via the system.