Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has donated N50million as relief fund that will form part of the stimulus package to cater for citizens.
Atiku, in a press statement on Wednesday, said his contribution will help support the Federal Government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
He applauded the various Nigerian state governments who have proactively taken measures, such as issuing stay at home orders, and shutting down non-essential markets and other places of mass gatherings, while also giving guidelines for social distancing”.
Despite the measures Atiku asked governments at all levels to “provide palliatives to the Nigerian people to enable them to survive, even as they abide by these necessary measures put in place for their own safety.”
According to him, “a large percentage of our people do not have the financial capacity to withstand long periods of self-isolation and even lockdown.”
The statement reads in part:
“However, we must accept the fact that much of the Nigerian public have a subsistence existence. A large percentage of our people do not have the financial capacity to withstand long periods of self-isolation and even lockdown”.
“It is, therefore, incumbent on the Federal and state governments to provide palliatives to the Nigerian people to enable them to survive, even as they abide by these necessary measures put in place for their own safety”.
“At an approximate 30 million households or thereabouts, the government should devise modalities to distribute N10,000 as a supplement for foodstuff to each household, among other palliative measures, with no one left behind”.
