A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Seriake Dickson has insisted that the federal government of Nigeria has been grounded.
Dickson stated this duringTuesdayplenary while speaking on the issue of non-payment of contractors by the government.
According to him, the present government under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu is busy with politics, receiving defectors across the country ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The Senator spoke duringTuesdayplenary on the floor of the National Assembly.
“Clearly nobody is satisfied with the situation we find ourselves in.Mr President, I came in this morning to have a conversation with the chairman of our cooperation and also the chairman of finance, and if possible to discuss this on the floor I did not know this matter was slated for hearing,”; Dickson said.
“Because we have all been inundated with complains all over, government has grounded that’s what it means, contractors who has done their jobs committed their resources cannot be paid, the benefit of the budget we all took time to work on and pass has not gotten to the people and guess what we are talking of the capital component.
“Maybe there is too much preoccupation with politics and 2027.
“Maybe there is too much concentration on receiving defectors across the country.
“The business of the Nigerian people to which we were all elected all of us and the president of the Federal Republic, is not moving forward,”; he complained.
Reports indicate that many contractors handling federal government ministries, departments, and agencies’ projects have not been paid since October 2024.
As a result, the House of Representatives on May 8, summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Yemi Cardoso, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu and other top government officials over the development.
