APC to Governor Aliyu: You are wasting Niger State funds – APC

The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, has been accused by the opposition All Progressives Congress of wasting the state’s resources by appointing new Special Advisers that would not yield any economic value to the state.
Aliyu recently stated that some of his Special Advisers have not offered him any advice in the over seven years he has been in office.
The APC said this shows that the state is squandering funds on political patronage.
The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Jonathan Vatsa, said in Minna on Sunday that the revelation by Aliyu came to the party as a surprise.
Vatsa said: “It is more absurd that he knows that there were Special Advisers who were not doing their jobs for seven years and still went ahead to appoint new ones to be paid from the lean resources of the state.
“We are in grief how the state treasury is bleeding and they want to silence us with watery responses and statements that were not issue based. They always choose to shift ground when people desire change. The change has come to Niger state and they will see it.
“A leader who always takes criticisms as a taboo and like to be praised as if he is God cannot take anybody’s advice. He will always like bootlickers, merchants of eye service and rumour mongers around him.”
The publicity secretary told Nigerlites to take consolation in God who is performing His miracle for the state as the Governor is gradually admitting his failures publicly.
Vatsa said that the Peoples Democratic Party-led government should sack those state advisers that are not performing and channel the resources meant for them to something else that will benefit Nigerlites.