Niger APC Smearing Gov Aliyu For Cheap Popularity – Niger Govt

Niger State government has stated that the attack on Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu by the All Progressives Congress (APC) was just a strategy to smear the name of the governor to gain cheap popularity. The government described the APC as a group of people only interested in blackmailing the state government to portray Governor Aliyu in bad light. The chief press secretary to the governor, Mr Israel Ayegba Ebije, made this known in a statement signed yesterday in Minna. He called on the people of the state to discountenance the puerile reasoning of the opposition, insisting that the attack was aimed at smearing the state government to score cheap political mileage. The spokesman said that the opposition mischievously quoted the governor out of context, adding that Governor Aliyu’s position on some of his special advisers not doing their bit was only an attempt at encouraging the newly sworn in advisers to sustain service delivery. He added that only two advisers have returned since the immediate past cabinet reshuffle, saying the governor has removed the unproductive advisers and that the opposition spokesman only spoke without taking cognisance of actual facts on ground.