N149trn Debt: Abbas has no right to complain after backing Tinubu’s loans – PDP

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, of hypocrisy implicit his informing connected Nigeria’s rising debt, saying helium lacks the motivation close to kick aft approving President Bola Tinubu’s borrowing requests.

PDP Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, spoke exclusively to Vanguard successful Abuja connected Monday, stressing that some Abbas and Senate President Godswill Akpabio were complicit successful plunging the state into a N149 trillion indebtedness crisis.

“I americium not amazed that Tajudeen Abbas, 1 of the ‘sidekicks’ of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been complicit successful burying the economical fortunes of Nigeria beyond imaginable depth. He himself and his accomplice successful borrowing approval, Senator Godswill Akpabio, should hide their heads successful shame erstwhile issues similar this travel up,” Osadolor said.

He argued that Abbas could not connected 1 hand, o.k. loans for President Tinubu and, connected the different manus lament that the indebtedness ceiling had been breached, informing that specified treble standards were unsafe for Nigeria’s aboriginal generations.

“Tajudeen Abbas cannot, connected 1 hand, o.k. loans for President Tinubu, and connected the different hand, kick that the indebtedness ceiling has been shattered and it is endangering the aboriginal generations of this country. If helium doesn’t person the motivation spine and fibre to archer President Tinubu ‘no’, past helium should bash the humble happening and resign,” Osadolor said.

The PDP chieftain recalled that nether the enactment of erstwhile Senate President Bukola Saraki, the National Assembly resisted excessive borrowing by the Buhari administration, dissimilar the existent legislature which helium described arsenic a ‘rubber stamp.’

“If they instrumentality a look backmost astatine the Bukola Saraki Senate Presidency, you volition realise that this is simply a sick gag compared to the mode Saraki ran the National Assembly and resisted the borrowing efforts of the Buhari government,” helium added.

Osadolor urged Abbas to prioritise the involvement of Nigerians, apologise to citizens for his complicity, and measurement speech if helium could not basal up to the executive.

“I impulse him to enactment the interests of Nigerians archetypal and realise that we cannot proceed nether this yoke of poorness that this indebtedness is putting america under. Since helium has realised that what they are doing is endangering the aboriginal of Nigerians, the honourable happening is to apologise and resign,” helium said.

The PDP younker person besides accused the ruling enactment of double-speak, alleging that Abbas’s alarm connected indebtedness was an admittance that the Tinubu medication had failed.

Turning to solutions, Osadolor said Nigeria indispensable physique beardown institutions alternatively of relying connected ‘strong men,’ stressing that independency of the legislature was captious for fiscal responsibility.

“When adjacent we elite officers of the National Assembly, we indispensable importune connected them choosing their ain leaders alternatively than being hand-picked from the Villa. That way, they volition person the courageousness to bash what is right,” helium explained.

He further called for regulatory and procurement agencies to unrecorded up to their responsibilities, noting that Nigeria had capable institutions connected insubstantial but lacked effectual implementation.

“We person much than capable regulatory agencies. It’s conscionable that nary of them is live to their responsibilities. What we request are men of quality with fiscal subject and the motivation fibre to accidental yes erstwhile indispensable and nary erstwhile necessary,” helium added.

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