Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu on Tuesday warned Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the state who are desperate to win elections in 2015 to either serve the people or defect to alternative political parties.
Aliyu, who said this at Government House, Minna, while signing into law the 2014 appropriation bill of over N98.8bn for 2014, called on the National and state assemblies to regularly scrutinise the MDA’s and Commissioners.
He said, “If you want to win election, you must serve the people and those of you in the PDP, who want to win election by all means without working, should defect to other parties.”
Aliyu also faulted the National and state assemblies for blaming the executive arm for lack of budget implementation at the end of the year.
He said the lawmakers should be up to their responsibility by inviting the executive to explain the reasons for the non implementation of any project captured in the budget and check the excesses of the executive.
“Nigerlites should hold me responsible if I fail in my responsibilities. I urge the National and state assemblies to regularly scrutinise the MDA’s and commissioners who are saddled with the responsibilities of budget implementation”, he said.
The Speaker, Niger State House of Assembly, Adamu Usman, said the House had adopted the submissions of the state medium term physical frame work for 2014 to 2016, which is in line with provisions of the fiscal responsibility law section 13 sub section 1 and 6 as passed by the House and assented to by the Governor.
Source: Punch
