{"id":35572,"date":"2019-10-24T05:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35572"},"modified":"2019-10-24T05:56:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T04:56:24","slug":"niger-pdp-blames-apc-senators-reps-members-for-playing-ostrich-over-federal-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/niger-pdp-blames-apc-senators-reps-members-for-playing-ostrich-over-federal-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger PDP, Blames APC Senators, Reps Members For Playing Ostrich Over Federal Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Niger State&#8217;s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) has expressed disappointment over a perceived\u00a0\u00a0 hypocritical Press statement credited to some Senators and members of the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressive Congress( APC)\u00a0 from the state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The party,\u00a0 in a statement signed by it&#8217;s\u00a0 state Chairman, Barr. Tanko Beji, said it finds the federal\u00a0 lawmakers\u00a0\u00a0 statement rather\u00a0 too late, belated and unfortunate that the federal legislators\u00a0 had to wait till the youths took to the roads in their numbers and caused\u00a0 blockades on the highways , describing it\u00a0 as an act of lawmakers abandoning their functions of representing the people who voted them into power.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to him &#8220;as if to add salt to fresh\u00a0 injuries, the lawmakers neither admonished, pressurized President Muhammadu\u00a0\u00a0 Buhari nor the State Governor, Alhaji\u00a0 Abubakar Sani Bello who has become synonymous with &#8220;No Project&#8221;,\u00a0 but with\u00a0 penchants for flying\u00a0 Chartered private\u00a0 Jets and watching Chelsea Football Club, in London.&#8221;<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Beji, added that the PDP cannot situate the statement coming from the federal lawmakers, but sees it as playing the ostrich who hides its head in the sands\u00a0 and leaving it&#8217;s whole body outside.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It is very clear to the PDP and Nigerlites that the APC, Governor Bello and their party&#8217;s lawmakers have nothing to offer other than a sing along the cacophony of useless noise&#8221;, he maintained .<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niger State&#8217;s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) has expressed disappointment over a perceived\u00a0\u00a0 hypocritical Press statement credited to some Senators and members of the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressive Congress( APC)\u00a0 from the state.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[6324,772],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-35572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-federal-roads","tag-niger-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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