The National chairman of Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, in this interview with Vanguard criticised the 2016 Budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the N6.08 trillion proposal as unrealisable. Alhaji Abdulsalam also bares his mind on recent happenings in the country. Excerpts:
By Chris Ochayi
What is your reaction to the budget, of N6.08 trillion presented by the President before the National Assembly?
The budget presented by President Buhari to the National Assembly does not make sufficient meaning to people like us. On what basis did the budget of N6.08trillion come about? Buhari told us that he met an empty treasury, so from what is he basing the budget of N6.08 trillion?
Why is Lai Mohammed crying everyday that Jonathan did this, Jonathan did that? We were aware that Jonathan did this, Jonathan did that and that was why when they called for a change. Nigerians voted for change. But today they keep on hammering on Jonathan and PDP. I think if they don’t have anything to do, if their agenda is not strong enough, we need to address certain issues with regards to Buhari and the APC.
I do not see to which extent this budget will not create additional problem, additional suffering to Nigerian people.
Additional problem
But I want to tell you the fact, it is clear that General Buhari who knows nothing about the economy, has no economic team that can address fundamentally the issue of the enormous economic situation in Nigeria.
He has no economic team?
He has no economic team. First he has no knowledge of economy at all and secondly he has no sound economic team that can fundamentally address the economic situation of Nigeria, else they will take us backward and it will be dangerous and it will terrible.
What is your stance on the fight against corruption?
And the corruption, the fighting of corruption by Buhari and the APC is discriminatory, it is sectional, it is selective and it is unguided because what is the difference between the ways Obasanjo fought corruption, Jonathan fought corruption and Buhari is fighting corruption. In Buhari’s own, the situation is worse because he is fighting them either you didn’t support him or you jailed him when he was in the military or you intercepted him when he was in the military.
*Abdulkadir Abdulsalam
So the corruption team by Buhari is not guided by any principle, it is just guided by selfishness, by self aggrandizement; they just want to punish people for the sake for punishing them. Did you ever hear anywhere in the world, where you subject security into this kind of disgracing insult. Buhari has no, if he has, he has no advisers or he doesn’t listen to advice.
What do you say about the evidence so far of the money paid through the office of the NSA, the Arms scandal?
The paid money to the NSA man, also the NSA man said he gave Buhari car, so what are they telling us. And you know the man said if he opens up, he will open up canker worms. So leave that aspect of NSA because it is not good for our image, it is not good for our security; no nation ever subjects its security to this kind of thing. And it is not done with sincerity of purpose, it is for selfishness, you want to create something out of the man.
But is that how security fund in other parts of the world is utilised?
We are hearing from one side, we have not heard from the man. Let the judgment commence openly. Let us hear from the other side, that is just the practicality of the situation.
Was security fund in the past used for campaign?
You see, security vote was never subjected to questioning. You can use security vote for media, you can use security vote for whatever but it has never happened in the history of Nigeria that people are questioned on how security votes are spent.
Let me ask you, is it only security votes that is the problem? What is the situation in NNPC? What is the situation with the state governors who carted our money away?
There is a difference between the security vote and money earmarked for arms to fight insurgency.
That is what I said, that is what you heard from the APC people or PDP people, we want to hear from the man both the former president and Dasuki.
Let’s hear from Dasuki himself in court openly. Did they give you $2.1billion dollars? What did you do with it? Who and who touched it?
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/buhari-shouldnt-push-dasuki-to-say-all-abdulsalam-lp-chair/

Who be this one?

So, security vote of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is supposed to be shared by PDP goons when we have security challenges ranging from kidnapping, to oil theft to unrest in the East and South South and finally boko haram insurgency in the North East?

Some people do reason with their anus in the name of politics.

He is crazy

buhari should leave dasuki so that he will go unpunished another certified madman on the loose.

criminals Advocate

Abeg he should say all...

Nigerians are interested in hearing 'all'

Wetin dey worry this one?

Since security funds cannot be questioned, Buhari and subsequent governments should budget half of our yearly budget to security and then loot all the money without looking back. Maybe Buhari should instigated multiple crisis to justify budgeting $10billion to security. The way this alhaji is talking you will think other countries to not fight wars or have security challenges.

Who be this one? Gerrarahere mehnn...

veraponpo:
So, security vote of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is supposed to be shared by PDP goons when we have security challenges ranging from kidnapping, to oil theft to unrest in the East and South South and finally boko haram insurgency in the North East?

Some people do reason with their anus in the name of politics.

reasoning with the anus is still better than you that reasons with the products of the anus. So what did Fashola,Kwankwaso and Amaechi do with their own monthly security votes? Did they use all the funds for security? Ode!

by d time dasuki starts talking, buari will wished he never had contested for president.
nigerians should resist any attempt to make dasuki trial a secret trial. since dis govt decide to tow d path of media trial, let dasuki trial be open to d media n d public in general. nigerians need to know d truth about d so call $2 billion arms deal. buari's fight against corruption is just persecution against his enemies.
let dasuki trial be open to d public n nigerians will see wonders.
its not by media trial u fight corruption.

naijaboy756:
reasoning with the anus is still better than you that reasons with the products of the anus. So what did Fashola,Kwankwaso and Amaechi do with their own monthly security votes? Did they use all the funds for security? Ode!

You people reason with your Di,cks. Nobody is talking about security votes. Security votes are budgeted for by the national or state assemblies and are spent according to the discretion of the president/governor. We have not questioned Jonathan's budgeted security votes, what we are questioning is the budgeted defense budget, which was close to N1 trillion naira in 2014 ( this is different from the presidents security votes) and the $1billion borrowed for arms procurement. We also demand to know where Dasuki got the $2.1billion he was sharing about, was it budgeted for by the national assembly?

By the end of these trials and investigations, i demand answers to these questions.

drss2:
by d time dasuki starts talking, buari will wished he should never have contest for president.
nigerians should resist any attempt to make dasuki trial a secret trial. buari's fight against corruption is just persecution against his enemies.
dasuki trial be open to d public n nigerians will see wonders.
its not by media trial u fight corruption.

At this point there is nothing Dasuki will say that will surprised anybody even if he said, President Obama of US also collected some SUVs abi wetin remain again?

In the fullness of time, the full album will be released. The singles is just to wet our appetite.

Meanwhile, let EFCC continue with the production.

naijaboy756:
reasoning with the anus is still better than you that reasons with the products of the anus. So what did Fashola,Kwankwaso and Amaechi do with their own monthly security votes? Did they use all the funds for security? Ode!

.................my dear please be patient with these guys, i understand your pain with people that make comments like them, but lets excercise restraint . It is disturbing , i mean the reasoning level of the average nigerian youth, so blind folded by outright political bias they have thrown logical reasoning to the winds. For goodness sake, this labour party guy has made a very honest and sincere expose on the entire dasuki 'witch hunt' , permit to use that because thats exactliy what it has turned out to be, but some of us are to politicaly biased to see the dictatorial and vindictive tendencies of this government all in the guise of fighting corruption. For starters, where is the account of buhari security votes when he was a military ruler? what about obasanjo, babangida, abdulsalam or are we to talk about the governors , the amaechi, fashola, aregbesola of out times? by the way, why are we only hearing about monies spent by PDP for campagin, what abot the billions spent by the APC? Who brought the money, or did it fall from the sky? why was the buhari administration quick to release billions of naira in bail out funds to states immediately after the handover without first of all making the state governors account to nigerians how they spent their allocations and IGRs to the point that they could not pay salaries? is that alone not corruption? i am actually not worried about these politicians that constantly exploit the gullibility of the nigeria youth at will, i am most worried about the in ability of of the average nigeria youth to read the handwriting on the wall. Except we do, we will unfortunately continue to be lead and used by same folks that have held this country hostage since independence. God bless us all.

dadexcel:
.................my dear please be patient with these guys, i understand your pain with people that make comments like them, but lets excercise restraint . It is disturbing , i mean the reasoning level of the average nigerian youth, so blind folded by outright political bias they have thrown logical reasoning to the winds. For goodness sake, this labour party guy has made a very honest and sincere expose on the entire dasuki 'witch hunt' , permit to use that because thats exactliy what it has turned out to be, but some of us are to politicaly biased to see the dictatorial and vindictive tendencies of this government all in the guise of fighting corruption. For starters, where is the account of buhari security votes when he was a military ruler? what about obasanjo, babangida, abdulsalam or are we to talk about the governors , the amaechi, fashola, aregbesola of out times? by the way, why are we only hearing about monies spent by PDP for campagin, what abot the billions spent by the APC? Who brought the money, or did it fall from the sky? why was the buhari administration quick to release billions of naira in bail out funds to states immediately after the handover without first of all making the state governors account to nigerians how they spent their allocations and IGRs to the point that they could not pay salaries? is that alone not corruption? i am actually not worried about these politicians that constantly exploit the gullibility of the nigeria youth at will, i am most worried about the in ability of of the average nigeria youth to read the handwriting on the wall. Except we do, we will unfortunately continue to be lead and used by same folks that have held this country hostage since independence. God bless us all.

You are just clutching straws in you attempt to justify Dasuki and Jonathan. Nobody has raised the issue of security votes. Security votes are contingency fund to be used by a chief executive for contingencies without having to seek approvals from national or state assemblies. That it is being abused is a subject for another day. What we are discussing here is the looting and diverting of monies budgeted for specific purposes.

contingency funds are available to all chief executive around the world - private or public. What you are implying is to investigate all security votes of all chief executives that have ever held office in the history of Nigeria, which is impractical and illegal. Our laws prohibits looking into security votes.
You should be advocating for a change in the laws governing security votes to make it more accountable and transparent instead of using it as an excuse to exonerated those that looted our treasury.

wirinet:


You are just clutching straws in you attempt to justify Dasuki and Jonathan. Nobody has raised the issue of security votes. Security votes are contingency fund to be used by a chief executive for contingencies without having to seek approvals from national or state assemblies. That it is being abused is a subject for another day. What we are discussing here is the looting and diverting of monies budgeted for specific purposes.

contingency funds are implyingavailable to all chief executive around the world - private or public. What you are implying is to investigate all security votes of all chief executives that have ever held office in the history of Nigeria, which is impractical and illegal. Our laws prohibits looking into security votes.
You should be advocating for a change in the laws governing security votes to make it more accountable and transparent instead of using it as an excuse to exonerated those that looted our treasury.

.........................My dear, I doubt if you properly digested first the content of the labour party mans interview and secondly my response before making thius post. If you did, you would have noticed that we are actually saying the same thing, just in different ways. You would also have noticed that i mentioned quite a number of things we youths should be concerned about (though you have decided to cull up only the dasuki issue). The truth of the matter is that there is no fairness , no justice and no equity yet in the leadership of this country and , taje it or leave it we might need Gods intervention to get these attributes from the same people that brought us here in the first place. Thats why i said we should always read in between the lines before we make decisions and make comments! you are blessed brother

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wirinet:


You are just clutching straws in you attempt to justify Dasuki and Jonathan. Nobody has raised the issue of security votes. Security votes are contingency fund to be used by a chief executive for contingencies without having to seek approvals from national or state assemblies. That it is being abused is a subject for another day. What we are discussing here is the looting and diverting of monies budgeted for specific purposes.

contingency funds are implyingavailable to all chief executive around the world - private or public. What you are implying is to investigate all security votes of all chief executives that have ever held office in the history of Nigeria, which is impractical and illegal. Our laws prohibits looking into security votes.
You should be advocating for a change in the laws governing security votes to make it more accountable and transparent instead of using it as an excuse to exonerated those that looted our treasury.

nobody is justifying Dasuki or Jonathan. What we are shouting at is the witch-hunt exercise in the name of corruption fight. Why is it one-sided? Why is Amaechi,Fashola,Tinubu,Kwankwaso free? Secondly, why make too much noise about PDP source of election funds? Didn't APC use money to fund theirs? Where did the money come from? So because all machineries of government(Police,EFCC,military) are in your hands and you are using them to execute a one-sided agenda, you the kettle want to paint pot black? Sorry for you!

Let's hear from dasuki in court that's all. And we have agreed that whoever have gotten a kobo from dasuki should be jailed, from me upto Gmb.

veraponpo:
So, security vote of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is supposed to be shared by PDP goons when we have security challenges ranging from kidnapping, to oil theft to unrest in the East and South South and finally boko haram insurgency in the North East?

Some people do reason with their anus in the name of politics.

exactly that is what security votes entails sharing with who so ever. If not for security votes many do or die politicians won't be interested in public office. Every finger now points to FGN as if other tiers of govt don't exist. This whole #dasukigate is only hot air that will soon go cold!

xtrorp:
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It's important to note that there is a notorious, diabolic NL moderator raging as a disgruntled, disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda

It's appalling that such a rather questionable character who has sold his soul to the devil for a mesh of porridge  would be given a task well beyond his intellectual capacity.

It's shameful that the scratched face dimwit would openly permit the abuses, diatribes and slurs thrown by his tribalistic people while deleting the resounding responses thereunto. It's rather disheartening that he aid and abet negative comments and threads against the Igbo Nation/IPOB/NK.

And it's even cowardly and pathetic for this moronic NL moderator to dare suspend accounts/monikers on that premise.

Rather than engage in a hide-and-seek game of discrimination and dishonour this NL misguided staff should simply present himself for a robust engagement if he is worth his salt.

On a final note, the best antidote for the madness of this raging NL agent is to prevent reregistration and completely ban the monikers of his purported enemies from NL to ease his perpetual misery and doom so as to make his job easier for his meagre pay and to the satisfaction of his sponsors.

A word is enough for the wise...

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