Abia Govt Should Not Take Credit For FG’s N75billion Survival Fund – APC Group

An All Progressive Congress (APC) group in Abia State known as Abia Progressive Watchmen (APW) has alleged that the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state is deceiving the public regarding the federal government’s N75 billion social intervention fund for micro, small and medium enterprises launched in the state on Monday.

The group disclosed this in a press release jointly signed by Pst. Dike Nwankwo ,Ferdinand Ekeoma ,Maxwell Nwadike,Nwabueze Onwunaeme,Barr. Tochukwu Ananaba and Mr. Austin Okezie on Tuesday.

The group stressed that the state’s Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Godswill Nwonoruo, was wrong in making residents believe that the proposed disbursement of the sum of N30,000 (Thirty Thousand Naira) each to 5000 Abia commercial motorists, was an initiative of the state government.

It frowned on the state government for not giving credit to the Federal Government over the N75 bllion fund, from where the said disbursement would be made to beneficiaries.

It’s statement further reads:

“That the N75 Billion Naira Survival Fund was a creation of the APC led federal government which is an intervention economic program rolled out to assist less privileged Nigerians, including Abians and to cushion the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“That it was terribly unfair, mischievous, unintelligent, disrespectful and deceitful for the said release to have consciously and cunningly given complete credit and poured undeserved encomium on governor Ikpeazu and his government for a program Abia state government has zero input in, while consciously and completelely refusing to acknowledge the federal government and the APC who were the real initiators and sponsors of the program.”