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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has claimed that the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is frustrating the efforts by the Federal Government to alleviate hunger in the state.
The party criticised the leader of the NNPP, Rabi’u Kwankwaso for condemning the method used by the Federal Government to distribute palliatives in the state.
APC insisted that the Federal Government is committed to alleviating hunger in the state, but the NNPP government in Kano State is frustrating its efforts.
The State Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Abbas stated this via a statement posted on his X handle.
Abbas also faulted Kwankwaso for saying that the distribution exercise was solely left for the APC.
He said, “The reconstituted committee by the Federal Government is under the leadership of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, with membership from the All Progressives Congress, New Nigeria People’s Party, Peoples Democratic Party, Inter-Party Advisory Council, Senator Rufa’i Hanga, Senator Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, members of the House of Representatives, Comrade Aminu Abdussalam, the State deputy governor, traditional and religious leaders, among others.”
He said the bipartisan committee had worked out detailed modalities for the distribution of the palliatives to prevent incidences of diversion and ensure that the beneficiaries were truly the most needy members of the public.
According to him, the Federal Government’s decision to devise a new method of sharing the palliatives is informed by President Bola Tinubu’s dissatisfaction with the previous exercise.
Abbas said President Tinubu had approved several palliative measures for poor households and the vulnerable, but that the people assigned for the distribution of the commodities were diverting them.
He alleged that “The scandalous escapades that enmeshed senior officials of the NNPP government brought to the fore how the palliatives could not reach the targeted poor and the vulnerable.”
The APC chairman, therefore, called on Kwankwaso “to tell his anointed governor to launch an investigation into these acts of irresponsibility, by ensuring that perpetrators account for all the missing palliatives and also prosecuted.”
