Nelson A.Osuala [14 September 2016] 02:48AM
Several critical reactions have trailed President Muhamadu Buhari's Bold Claim of having inherited an empty Treasury from the previous administration of the erstwhile president Good luck Ebelle Jonathan.
According to Buhari's Monday statement aftermath from his Eid prayers in Daura, Katsina state, where He, Buhari avers that Nigeria's present economic recession ( if not depression) was catalysed by the failure of his predecessor- PDP administration.
In Buhari's words:
“I want Nigerians to realise that what this government inherited after 16 years of PDP government was no savings, no infrastructure, no power, no rail, no road and no security,”.
It was the foregoing that has led Leo Ogor, the State House of representatives Minority Leader, to refute PMB's excuses for failure and ineptitude, to which the latter claims is unfounded.
Paraphrasing Leo Ogor, Buhari has failed as a leader because he is surrounded by half baked ministers who know next to nothing about ways to bring about economic planning and development.
Buhari's APC led administration is bankrupt of ideas and good economic policies. Rather than shed invalidated blames and excuses, PMB should brace up for the challenge and find better ways to improve the country, He suggested.
According to an excerpt from Vanguard, Leo Ogor gave a frank refutation to PMB's alleged reason for Nigeria's recession, it reads:
“First and foremost, let Mr President show us what the PDP administration left behind so that we can pin-point all we achieved in those years.
“Let me not go too far, the rail stations he commissioned recently, can he lay claim to it or the telecommunications industry he met on ground that is second to none in Africa?
He chose the PDP left overs that he appointed as ministers to help him run his government and that has led us to recession.
“PDP had the best of the best in terms of economy management and governance and he decided to take the remnants and they have showcased their expertise in making us a poor nation within a very short period.
Let him give us back the economy and see how we’ll re-grow it within a short period. PDP left robust democratic institutions, laced with the rule of law but today, it has been jettisoned.
“Before his emergence, Nigeria was the highest exporter of cement and the Agriculture sector was already developing to a world standard.
Today, the former Agriculture and Finance ministers work in international organisations a clear testimony to the fact that PDP had top class administrators.
“The dollar was N150 to a US dollar but today, how much is the dollar to the Naira?
This government came with policies that have made Nigeria a pauper nation in less than two years.
“This is definitely the product of bad policies and clear indication that APC needs our support to stabilise our policy battered economy.”
Nelson A.Osuala
Is a Blogger & the Associate Editor of Negroidhaven.org
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