By Peter Duru

MAKURDI—Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the ongoing nation-wide Good Governance Tour, led by the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, as an orchestrated mission of deceit and waste of the nation’s resources.

Benue State Chairman of CNPP, Mr. Baba Agan, who said this, yesterday, while reacting to the visit of the team to Benue to access the development strides of the state and Federal governments, said the tour was a mere jamboree that would serve no useful purpose.

Agan said: “How can a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria lead a team of journalists on a tour of states of the federation in the name of good governance, when our people cannot easily buy fuel in our filling stations?

“It is obvious that this tour is guided and the fact that a Minister is leading the team means that nothing negative against the government of the day would be heard at the end of it all.

“There are dilapidated infrastructures everywhere in the country. There is poor network of roads, lack of electricity supply, non-functional industries, high rate of unemployment, poverty and widespread insecurity and somebody is telling us of good governance.

“Nigerians are suffering in the mist of plenty; we can hardly pay our children’s school fees; we cannot access quality healthcare, while the rich are flying overseas for regular medical check up.

“It is all deceit and so much insincerity on the part of those in government, whom we thought should know better. Unfortunately, most of the people, who paraded themselves as government officials today, are there for pecuniary motives. It is saddening.”