Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration officials received knocks from Nigerians this week.<\/p>\n
They were repeatedly criticized as citizens again questioned their competence.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was accused of having a political motive in Edo State after the announcement of an empowerment scheme.<\/p>\n
It was organized by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) under the supervision of Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, a former activist.<\/p>\n
Tagged \u2018Small Scale Enterprises Programme\u2019, the NDE disbursed Micro Enterprise Enhancement Scheme (MEES) to 2,000 women and youths.<\/p>\n
The distribution, at different locations from September 15 to 17, had in attendance wife of APC governorship candidate, Idia Ize-Iyamu.<\/p>\n
The election will be held on September 19.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, social media pounced on the government. They condemned the timing and argued that the events should have been postponed.<\/p>\n
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) described it as a ploy to induce the electorate.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow would the wife of a candidate in an election be partnering with the federal government a few days before the election to \u201cempower\u201d Edo people? How do you defend it? That is a clear vote buying by proxy,\u201d the body asserted.<\/p>\n
Hamma Hayatu, a former staunch supporter of the President declared: \u201cThey have no shame at all\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are doing Tradermoni in disguise in Edo under NDE under the supervision of Keyamo. Vote-buying nonsense. Hope Edo people will shame them\u201d, he tweeted.<\/p>\n
TraderMoni is government\u2019s programme for traders and artisans.<\/p>\n
Weeks ahead of the 2019 general elections, vocal critics, including former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, accused the Buhari administration of luring voters.<\/p>\n
In his statement titled \u2018Points for concern and action\u2019, Obasanjo lampooned Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for going to various markets to share money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an act by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria lawyer, number two man in the Executive hierarchy, a pastor of one of the Christian movements\u2026Osinbajo has shown the human weakness and proved the saying that the corruption of the best is the worst form of corruption. His explanation that it was their government programme can only be construed to be very shallow and lopsided, if not an outrightly idiotic programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who criticise the action are called evil, but they are not evil as they know what they are doing and saying, and they love Nigeria and Nigerians not less than the likes of Osinbajo. What is the connection between taking the number of PVC (Permanent Voter\u2019s Card) of the recipient of the N10,000 doled out to \u2018traders\u2019 and the forthcoming election? There is something sinister about it, and Professor Osinbajo, of all people, should know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration officials received knocks from Nigerians this week. They were repeatedly criticized as citizens again questioned their competence. On Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was accused of having a political motive in Edo State after the announcement of an empowerment scheme. It was organized by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":27052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,97,1528],"class_list":["post-30066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-ize-iyamu"],"yoast_head":"\n