‘This Govt Has Not Been Found Wanting’: APC Hails 2021 Budget Presentation

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s presentation of the proposed 2021 National Budget aptly tagged ‘Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience’ to a Joint Session of the 9th National Assembly on Thursday.

The APC in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said that the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has not been found wanting.

“We are confident that the 9th National Assembly will continue and consolidate its patriotic disposition by speedily considering and passing the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law to enable implementation by 1st January 2021, as canvassed by the President.

Commendably, “this government has not been found wanting in its resolve to cushion the biting effects on the citizenry while delivering on key policies, programmes and critical infrastructure projects, notably our ongoing national railway projects, the second Niger Bridge, among other critical projects that positively impact our national life”.

The ruling party said that the President Buhari administration is not oblivious of the perseverance and continued support Nigerians have displayed in these difficult times brought by the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the crash in oil prices which affected national revenue and individual livelihoods.

“In the face of dwindling national resources, President Buhari in his 2021 budget presentation speech has committed to intensifying measures to address revenue leakages and redirect scarce resources to the poor and vulnerable through deregulation of the price of petroleum products; continued verification exercise with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and implementation of service-based electricity tariffs.

“We particularly urge members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to show patriotism by supporting the government’s intentions on the IPPIS which is to streamline and check the incidence of payments to non-existent personnel and unauthorised allowances by enrolling in the IPPIS, ending the ongoing strike and enable our students to resume school”.