The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the senate has
tackled President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent comment on
constituency projects.
On Tuesday, the president said N1 trillion had been spent on
constituency projects in the last 10 years without anything to show
for it.
Buhari spoke at a summit organised by the Independent Corrupt
Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in
collaboration with the office of the secretary to the government of
the federation.
But speaking with reporters in Abuja on Wednesday, Enyinnaya
Abaribe, senate minority leader, said the PDP lawmakers were not
bothered about the comment because “somebody must have written a
speech and then put false information” in it.
“We are not worried by the statement. The reason we are not
worried is because we know that it was a statement that was
erroneous,” Abaribe said.
“Somebody must have written a speech and then put false
information in the speech. I have done constituency projects and we
have always said that they are not done by senators or members of
the house of representatives.
“They are domiciled in the executive who execute it. If the
president said he has not seen anything, he should ask his
ministers and his agencies under him as the executive as they are
the people who have been executing these projects.”
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