APC Is Intimidating Civil Servants In Kano State – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has come out to blast the alleged threats by the Chairman of All Progressive Congress, APC, Abdullahi Abbas on Civil Servants in Kano State.

PDP chairman in the state, Shehu Wada Sagagi recently revealed this in a press conference, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, it is wrong for APC to warn civil servants to register with the party or lose benefits from the government, despite being unable to pay minimum wage.

He then cautioned the ruling party and its agents to stop intimidating civil servants, while urging APC to discharge their responsibilities in accordance with set rules as the engine room of the government.

His words, “The Kano state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has condemned the recent threats by the Acting Chairman of the ruling APC in Kano, Abdullahi Abbas on the state civil servants by saying all prospective applicants for any recruitment must be registered members of APC.”

“Despite the state’s inability to pay minimum wage, the rampant and reckless deductions from salaries of Kano state civil servants which further increased their hardship.”

“The recent threat coming from the APC leadership has shown the crass tendencies to politicise the civil service, a position that our party PDP decided to tackle vehemently.”

“With this statement, the PDP wishes to caution the ruling party and its agents to stop intimidating civil servants and allow them to discharge their responsibilities in accordance with set rules as the engine room of the government.”

“To us, ignorance is not an excuse. It is clearly stated in the civil service rules that no officer is allowed to be partisan.”

“We are aware that the APC suffers a major setback as people of Kano are dissuaded not to participate in the ongoing membership registration and validation exercise because the party has failed to fulfil its promises both at federal and state levels.”

“The low turnout of the ruling party’s registration exercise has proven our assertion that Nigerians and indeed people of Kano are tired with the leadership of the APC for its inability to create economic prosperity as revealed by the recent national performance grant report, where Kano scored one of the lowest performance rates among other states of the federation.”