APC Vows To Block Funding For Nigeria Police?

All Progressives Congress, APC, members in the House of Representatives put their threat to shut the affairs of the Federal Government in higher gear when they vowed to block funding for the Nigeria Police and all capital projects in the 2014 Appropriation Bill.

Rising from the House session, yesterday, the APC lawmakers promised to throw up a doctrine of necessity to allow the National Assembly push through a budget that would only allow the payment of salaries and other necessary recurrent expenditure of government.

The plans by the APC were dismissed by the Presidency which described it as anti-democratic and a direct attack on the Nigerian people.

Deputy leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the House, Rep. Leo Ogor, on his part described the threat from the APC as a joke from jesters.

The APC legislators, who addressed the press after plenary, noted that they would follow their party’s directive and would focus on appropriations to the police and capital projects.

Noting the weight of the APC in the House, the APC legislators, who were led to the press conference by 

the APC leader, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, noted the failure of the PDP leader to push through any motion or bill in the last two months since the APC achieved its majority status in the House.

He also flayed what he described as President Goodluck Jonathan’s disdain for the National Assembly through his action in sending an employee of the government to present the 2014 budget proposals.

“As far as the House is concerned, keen observers would have noticed that since last year, most bills presented on the floor of the House through the PDP leader in the House, Mulikat Adeola, have suffered an almost instant and premature death,” he said.