Aliyu’s aide blasts APC over ‘cheap blackmail’

The Niger State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has been described as a group of people only interested in blackmailing the state government to cast negative values at the conduct and character of Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu.
The Chief Press Secretary to Aliyu, Israel Ebije, lambasted the APC in a statement in Minna on Wednesday, and called on the people of the state to discountenance the puerile reasoning of the opposition, insisting it is an errand to smear the state government to score cheap political mileage.
Ebije recalled that the opposition mischievously quoted the governor out of context, adding that Aliyu’s position on some of his Special Advisers not doing their bit was only an attempt at encouraging the newly sworn in advisers to sustain service delivery.
The governor’s spokesman added that only two advisers have returned since the immediate past cabinet reshuffle.
He therefore insisted that the governor has removed the unproductive advisers and that the opposition spokesman only spoke without taking cognisance of actual facts on ground.
According to Ebije: “It is very sad that the opposition allows itself to be misled by a self seeking individual only interested in profiting from cheap blackmail.
“It is a known fact that the Niger State governor has zero tolerance for unproductive members of the cabinet and he was only charging the newly sworn in Special Advisers to work harder.
“Now that the landing gears of the present administration has been engaged, it is general knowledge that some politicians may want to rest on their oars as it is in the case of past administrations but that is what the Chief Servant wont tolerate.
“He has made it very clear to all that he is going to commission projects till May 29th 2015, and that would be possible only when those in government are proactive, productive and people oriented.
Ebije then insisted that the governor is a leader who does not believe in failure and the best way to go about it is to insist on raising the bar for whoever is brought into the administration.
The spokesman therefore concluded that the blackmail approach of the APC has only blindfolded the spokesman of the party to the extent that he comments on issues he does not have grasp over.