PDP misrule plunged Nigeria into recession – AMAC chair

….Extols Sen. Aduda’s venture

Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Alhaji Adamu candido, has blamed the present economic woes of the country on the sixteen years’ leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that the level of financial misappropriation, maladministration was enough to bring any nation to a halt.

His words: “The FCT and indeed other states of the federation deserve better representations by its elected officers and if such has been in place since the past sixteen years of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria should have been a better place and Nigerians should have not massively voted them out of office”.

Candido stated that millions of naira carted away by the past elected officers must be seen as a crime against the country and should be made to pay for it.

Candido, who was speaking during the ceremony of constituency project of Senator Philip Tenimu Aduda in Abuja recently, said that effort such as this is required of any elected public office holder as a pay back to peoples mandate.

The AMAC chairman pledged loyalty and support to philanthropist who places major priority on human capital development in the FCT and indeed at the AMAC under his supervision.

“On behalf of all the APC members in the FCT and other Area council chairmen, I thank Aduda for his kind gesture and in given scholarship to all indigenous undergraduates of the FCT,” he said.

He noted that Aduda has done the good and required work irrespective of party affiliation and has given scholarship award to over 3,000 students crossing the six area councils of the FCT.

Speaking also, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the FCT, Mr. Yunusa Y. Sulaiman, while relishing the good work and the first of its kind in the FCT, remarked that the people had before now, waited for gestures like this which have never been a practice in the northern part of the country.

He said “Aduda and indeed a PDP stalwart has actually led the way in representing the people well and I think that such examples will always come from the party”.

He stated that time has come when leaders should be thinking out the box in finding out what they offer for their people.

Senator Philip Aduda while presenting mock checkbooks to the students, admonished them to be of good character, adding that those who do so will deserve more subsequently. He reiterated efforts to ensure indigent students of the FCT meet the world required academic level by the year 2030.

Aduda, who debunked rumours making the round on his ambition to become first ever mayor of the Federal Capital Territory, hinted that his effort was to ensure building the culture of growth of education in the Nigeria’ capital city.

“I must tell you, it is our duty to let others benefit from us who are representing them and we know that posterity will always judge each and every one of us,” he said.