All Progressives Congress, APC presidential aspirant, Sam Nda-Isaiah, yesterday, debunked rumours of his arrest in Ekiti State on the orders of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The denial of the alleged arrest came as the presidential aspirant also yesterday, laid down a six-point programme for the federal administration to ward off challenges arising from declining prices of oil.
Nda-Isaiah in a statement issued on behalf of his campaign organisation by a spokesman, David Chinda, said while in Ado-Ekiti for a session with party delegates yesterday, the Divisional Police Officer in the area where he was lodged came around with some policemen on the prompting that the hotel was about to be invaded by thugs.
SAM Nda- Isaiah
The campaign spokesman said the issue was subsequently resolved between the policemen and his security details comprising operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, and policemen.
The campaign spokesman affirmed that “the Police and DSS personnel attached to Sam Nda-Isaiah were able to quell the controversy and clarify the misinformation even without his knowledge of the issue.”
While laying down his recommendations for addressing the challenges from depleting oil prices in another statement, Nda-Isaiah nevertheless flayed the administration’s failure to take precautionary measures as proposed by him and others in protecting the country from the developments arising from the crash in oil prices.
Six-point agenda to tackle depleting oil prices
“Over the years, the Federal Government has earned trillions of naira in revenues but has consistently failed to make the development of the non-oil sector a priority to counter our dependence on the export of crude oil,” Nda-Isaiah said in a statement issued by a campaign spokesman, David Chinda.
His six point-programme of action, he said, would include the immediate stop of illegal bunkering operations, full remittance of oil sale proceeds to the federation account, tackling corruption headlong and increased development of the non-oil sector to allow increased revenue from that source.
Nda-Isaiah also recommended that the auditor-general of the federation should rise up to his responsibility even as he wondered why the administration did not anticipate the development in its 2014 budget proposals.
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