The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau has kicked against Gov. Caleb Mutfwang’s request to the State House of Assembly for an approval to acquire a N15 billion loan.
Governor Mutfwang explained that the loan would be used to clear backlog of civil servants salary arrears and acquire farm inputs for farmers.
The approval was granted by the lawmakers at the plenary.
But the APC in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr Sylvanus Namang, said that as a critical stakeholder in the Plateau project, they seriously objected to the loan because the governor did not follow due process.
Namang said that PDP’s two-third majority in the Plateau State House of Assembly was not a license for recklessness and arbitrariness which if left unchecked, Plateau would be worse for more turbulent days ahead.
According to him, the reasons advanced for the loan were as unconvincing as they were not tenable.
He added that mandatorily, such approvals by the State Executive Council and the House of Assembly would then be forwarded to ministry of finance and debt management department to further process.
Namang stated that to the best of their knowledge, there was no state executive council as what is on ground is the governor, his deputy and the attorney general and that the debt advisory committee was also not constituted.
