APC to face uphill task in 2019 FCT council polls – Tanko Abari

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the FCT, Alhaji Musa Tanko Abari, has expressed fear that the party may not win any of the area councils in the 2019 election.

Abari said that may be due to poor funding of the area councils by the FCT Minister, Muhammed Musa Bello, which has hampered the performance of the council chairmen.

Abari, who contested for FCT senate on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 election, stated this during an interview with our reporter at his Jiwa residence on Friday.

He said the five area council chairmen were being starved of funds by the minister to execute viable projects that would impact on the lives of the electorate in the territory.

He said there was need for the minister to release the bailout funds to the area councils to cushion the hardship and hunger the electorate were currently facing.

“After three years, we will go for another election and without good performance, nobody will vote us again, which is my fear. Therefore, I am still appealing to the minister to give the chairmen money to execute projects so that we will have something to show the people during next campaign,” he said.

The party chieftain however said the country’s bad economy which was inherited by the present administration was responsible for the hardship facing the entire country.

Abari said he was impressed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort to diversify the country’s economy to agriculture was yielding positive results.