Nasarawa Governor Congratulates President Tinubu On Victory At Tribunal

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, and the Speaker of the State Assembly have congratulated President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as well as all Nigerians, over the judgments of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) stressing that the judgment is a victory for all Nigerians.

Governor Sule congratulated President Tinubu, the APC, and Nigerians while distributing palliative to vulnerable people at the palace of the Esu Karu, in the Karu local government area of the state.

The Governor said the victory at the PEPT is for the peace of the country and an opportunity for all Nigerians to join hands together to work for the progress of the country.

In its lead judgment on Wednesday, the PEPT dismissed the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 election.

The Governor who couldn’t hide his excitement, expressed appreciation over the victory in one of the three cases instituted to challenge the victory of the president and the party at the 2023 presidential election.

“Let me use the opportunity to congratulate His Excellency, congratulate our party, congratulate INEC, and congratulate Nigerians because the judgment is a victory for all Nigerians. It is an opportunity for all to come and work together for the progress of this country,“ he said.

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The Speaker also felicitated with the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), describing the court verdict as the affirmation and manifestation of the mandate of the Nigerian populace given to Mr President and the APC.

The Speaker called on all Nigerians to support the President to succeed.

Distribution of palliatives

Speaking at the event, Gov. Sule further announced that each of the 13 local government areas of the state would receive 1000 bags of 50kg of rice, which would be shared with 1000 vulnerable persons.

He added that each beneficiary of a 50kg bag of rice would also receive five thousand naira cash.

The Governor used the opportunity of the event to disclose additional measures aimed at taking care of civil servants, and pensioners, as well as the procurement of ten CNG buses to ply at a reduced fair aimed at reducing transportation costs across the state.

The Governor emphasized that he has taken it upon himself to supervise the distribution of the palliative to ensure that the items get to the actual beneficiaries.

“As you know, this is an initiative by the Federal Government to cushion the effect of the hardship created by the removal of fuel subsidy. I have mentioned it many times and I am sure so many people already heard it. That a total of 5bn is going to be given to every state but it’s not going to be all cash. N2bn has been released to us as a government, N2bn will be released later and this is for all 36 states. Another 1bn is coming to us in the form of grains. And we have already started receiving that as well.

“We started initially by buying a 50kg bag of rice and rebagging it into 7.5kg. By doing that, we were thinking it was an opportunity to give more people. Because the process is taking so long, we decided to go ahead and share the 50kg bags at the first stage mostly because of the agitation for succour.

“Civil servants, both at the state and local government levels, are going to be given N10,000 per month for the next six months. That is part of the palliative. Pensioners for both state and local government are also going to receive N5000 per month both at the state and local government levels for the next six months.

“This is in addition to other palliative that would be provided including buses. We are buying about 10 of them that will be able to drive on CNG and those buses will be at a reduced transport fair to reduce the cost of transportation for our people.

“As for the rice, we decided that every local government will receive 1000 of the 50kg bags and they will give us 1000 names so that everyone that is receiving one 50kg bag would also receive N5000 along,” he said.

In Keffi, the Governor announced a similar arrangement for beneficiaries from the local government areas, stressing that each beneficiary would take home a 50kg bag of rice and five thousand naira.

Emmanuel Ukoh