2024 Budget: "You can't take credit for Tinubu's work", APC stalwarts tells Sen Nwoko

By Nosa Àkenzua

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Delta State Chapter, Mr Philip Elueme, has admonished the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial district, Senator Ned Nwoko to desist from seeking to take credit for what he described as a painstaking efforts of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to expend N3.5bn earmarked for the Delta Senatorial district in the 2024 budget in many sectors.

The party chieftain who gave this insight in Abuja noted that a closer perusal of the 2024 budget for the Delta North district has the imprint of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu, adding that the President is conscious of the need of the people of the district saying Senator Nwoko shouldn’t feast on the budget of the APC-led administration to “mislead and misinform the now wiser constituents” who he said can not be deceived again having been represented until recently by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, Sen Ifeanyi Okowa, late Sen Osakwe, who served without taking undue credit ingloriously. Elueme asserted: “UmuAnioma are seeing through the contradictions inherent in the current misadventure of the scheming, over hyped, Senator-do-nothing.”

It is on record, Elueme said, that no Senator attracted a whopping N3.5bn expenditure to his Constituency in 2024 budget without a Federal government project inserted in it deliberately by the presidency and this is outside the purview of the lawmakers and it is in tandem with what the Renewed Hope Agenda represents.

With the benefits of hindsight, Elueme noted that there were unfinished jobs that his predecessors over the years were handling in the Senate that culminated in the huge sum allocated to Delta North Senatorial district in the current budget a more reason he said Senator Nwoko should give credit accordingly rather than conjure cheap credit in what he described as unnecessary self adulation.”

In his reaction to the list of projects announced to have been attracted to the district, by Senator Nwoko, Mr Elueme who has been in and out of the National Assembly cum Presidency, administratively over the years stated that:

“The projects your camp published goes beyond his constituency projects to include majorly, APCs President Tinubu led Renewed agenda projects for Delta North in 2024, in the water, roads and educational sectors, etc.

“Curiously Nwoko’s media team, who are claiming that some Nigerians want Prince Ned to run for Presidency in 2027 [ hence challenge President Tinubu] have been propagating the notion that Mr President and APC have little or nothing to show.

“Happily, the same false propagandists against Mr President, laughingly ‘hijacked his projects’ in Delta north as their minority PDPs member attracted cum lobbied projects, meaning that Nwoko’s camp cum party can fallaciously go ahead debranding APC and Mr President as ineffectual.” The vociferous party leader and Anioma activist stated as he advised Senator Nwoko and his team that:

“For good governance to thrive we must abide by the principles of integrity and transparency particularly when we communicate to the public’s.

“I am afraid that this angle by Nwoko’s camp is not acceptable within the norms of ethically oriented good governance mantra.

“Federal projects largely of President Tinubu in Delta North will not be allowed to be misappropriated, that is like falsely debranding Mr President and his party as having done nothing for Delta northerners…it’s abysmally fraudulent and we call for a change of attitude in the above context. Nwoko should work harder to attract projects to the Constituency and exit his penchant for cheap publicity.” Elueme enthused.

Pointedly, Elueme called on Senator Nwoko to caution his handlers who he noted are eroding his integrity in their unwarranted vilification of President Tinubu arguing that: “The alter egos of APC’s President Tinubu in Delta State are the APC State Executives led by Olorogun Sobotie, RT Hon Omo Agege, APC leaders in Delta North Sen Peter Nwaoboshi, Rt. Hon Victor Ochei, Lady Madam Olejeme, Engr Hon Doris Uboh, APC reps candidate for Ndokwa Ukwuani Federal Constituency in the last election, Sir Opone, Evangelist Moses Kamaya, and all the others too numerous to mention would not allow for unbidden elements to cast slur on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria either in the state or beyond.

“These are the owners of these APCs President Tinubu renewed agenda projects, largely spread all over Delta North. These are the APC Federal presence projects. Senator Nwoko of PDP minority will not be allowed to take over APC President Tinubu renewed agenda projects in 2024.
Prince Ned is openly arrogating some of President Tinubu renewed agenda policy projects in Delta State to himself as if he is the President.”