By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
One of the support groups of the All Progressives Congress (APC), APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari administration has succeeded in wiping out inter governmental rivalries between the subnational and federal governments.
APC LAC observed, in a statement issued in Abuja that in the history of Nigeria, no President has demonstrated the type of capacity and commitment like Buhari did, to democratically empower every tier of government, for improved delivery of the dividends of democracy to the Nigerian people than.
According to a statement signed by Barr Ismail Ahmed, Lanre Issa-Onilu, Tolu Ogunlesi and Salihu Moh Lukman, the group said Buhari has scrapped the era of Presidents lording it over State governors, and trying to remove those deemed to have ‘offended’ the federal government.
The statement said “President Buhari has been elected twice on the platform of the APC, but he has consistently demonstrated that he is a politician for all of Nigeria, regardless of political or regional affiliation.
“All of the administration’s policies and programs have been made available for all State governments to take advantage of, and benefit from, for the benefit of all of the people of Nigeria.
“The Bailout programs of the federal government – including more than N600 billion in Budget Support and N575 billion in commercial loans restructuring – that helped the States through the recession of 2016 and its immediate aftermath, were extended to all interested States in the country irrespective of partisan differences.
“The President has approved trillions of Naira in vital Refunds to State governments, since 2015. These include more than $5 billion in Paris Club Refunds, owed since 2006, and N700 billion in Refunds for construction work carried out by State Governments on Federal roads.
“In the case of the latter, the highest benefiting State was Rivers State, receiving more than 10 per cent of the entire amount disbursed to all the States. The State government has since acknowledged receipt of the funds.
“That these actions can now be taken for granted demonstrate just how much President Buhari has done to restore normalcy to the dealings between the tiers of government.
