{"id":715402,"date":"2019-10-03T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/03\/pdp-rejects-plan-by-fg-to-re-introduce-toll-gate-on-federal-roads\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:55:29","slug":"pdp-rejects-plan-by-fg-to-re-introduce-toll-gate-on-federal-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/03\/pdp-rejects-plan-by-fg-to-re-introduce-toll-gate-on-federal-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Rejects Plan By FG To Re-Introduce Toll Gate On Federal Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_711502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-711502\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-711502 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Buhari-2-1280x720-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"President Buhari\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-711502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has kicked against the proposed plan by the federal government to re-introduce toll gates on all federal roads in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement that was made public by the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Kola Ologbondiyan.<\/p>\n<p>Only recently, President Buhari approved the increase of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5% to 7.2% despite outcry by Nigerians, who are also being made to pay exorbitant tariffs for electricity and other essential services.<\/p>\n<p>Since President Buhari came into office in 2015, his administration had continued to increase prices and impose all manner of levies on Nigerians which proceeds are being frittered by the cabal in the presidency leading to a bleeding economy and despondency among the citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP says that instead of putting more pressure on already impoverished Nigerians by introducing toll gates at this point in time, President Buhari should exert himself, seek ways of creating wealth out of the abundant resources at the disposal of his administration or make haste to surrender the reign of governance to more competent hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians could recall that the PDP administration, in keeping with our determination to ensure the wellbeing and economic prosperity of our citizens, dismantled toll gates, cut tax profiles and applied our energies towards wealth creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore certain that if our nation were under a PDP administration, as desired by Nigerians, competent hands would have been on the deck to proffer ways to create wealth for governance instead of turning our citizens into vassals who are overburdened by heavy taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP states that it is lamentable that at the time Nigerians ought to be enjoying the benefits of the Atiku Abubakar economic recovery and wealth creation blueprint, they are faced with suppressive policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP, therefore, charges President Buhari to immediately rescind the decision to return toll gates on our highways as such is not in the best interest of Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Buhari The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has kicked against the proposed plan by the federal government to re-introduce toll gates on all federal roads in the country. 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Only recently, President Buhari approved the increase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":715403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP Rejects Plan By FG To Re-Introduce Toll Gate On Federal Roads - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/03\/pdp-rejects-plan-by-fg-to-re-introduce-toll-gate-on-federal-roads\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"PDP Rejects Plan By FG To Re-Introduce Toll Gate On Federal Roads - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Buhari The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has kicked against the proposed plan by the federal government to re-introduce toll gates on all federal roads in the country. 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