Aisha Buhari Appeals To APC On N5,000 Unemployment Package

The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5,000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day.

Her appeal came on the heels of the decision of some senators from the party who voted against the senate moving a motion calling on the Presidency to pay the N5,000 allowance.

According to a statement signed by her spokesperson, Adebisi Ajayi, Buhari said APC is a party of integrity and had assured Nigerians during the campaign that it would pay 5,000 Naira each month to 25 million most vulnerable citizens.

“The wife of the president asked Nigerians to be patient with the APC government as the change they had been yearning for had come to stay” the statement read.

Nigerian Senators were last week Tuesday divided along party lines when PDP members canvassed a motion for the payment of N5000 stipend to all unemployed youth as promised by the APC.

The motion appeared as an attempt by the opposition party to mock the APC-government which is already struggling with severe revenue shortage.

The PDP had later issued a statement on Wednesday saying the APC Senators were only doing the bidding of their party, which it said had only used the monthly stipend as a campaign strategy and that the party never intended to implement it.