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FG says PDP is shameless for wanting to return Nigeria to ‘Egypt’

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8 years ago

September 15, 2016

FG says PDP is shameless for wanting to return Nigeria to ‘Egypt’

The Federal Government has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is irritating and shameless for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.

In a press statement released on Thursday by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and made available to newsmen by his Special Assistant, Segun Adeyemi, the minister slammed the PDP accusing them of distracting the government from its rescue mission and trying to return the country to ‘Egypt’.

”We are on a rescue mission to resuscitate Nigeria after the PDP left it in a coma, and the noise from the same PDP seems designed to sabotage the rescue efforts. But we are not deterred.

”While the PDP was emasculating Nigeria on all fronts, including social, economic and political, the rapacious party was deceiving Nigerians by giving them the illusion of growth and prosperity. Instead of showing remorse and rebuilding itself to a strong opposition party, the PDP has continued to blame the successor Buhari administration which is left to pack their mess. PDP undertakers have continued to engage in a blame game, when they should be hiding from the shame they brought upon themselves and the nation,” Mohammed said.

He claimed that what the PDP has consistently put up as a vibrant economy under its watch was nothing but a bubble that was buoyed by massive corruption and chronic incompetence, an economy in which someone without any known means of earned livelihood would boast of $31.5 million.

He said, ”They keep saying we should stop talking of the past, yet the past will not stop rearing its head. They keep saying we should no longer refer to the past, but how can we forget so soon that our foreign exchange reserves plummeted from $62bn in 2008 to $30bn by 2015, at a time when oil prices were at a historic high, reaching a level of $114 per barrel in 2014. By comparison, Indonesia, another oil producing economy with a high population, increased its reserves from $60 billion in 2008 to $120 billion in 2015.

”The candid truth is that we failed under the successive PDP administrations to save for the rainy day, and we need to constantly remind ourselves of that so that we won’t repeat the mistake.”

Mohammed added that while the government of President Muhammadu Buhari will always welcome constructive criticism, it had nothing to learn from a PDP “that was in charge of the nation’s affairs at a time of plenty, but ended up frittering away the commonwealth, looting the nation blind and setting the stage for today economic crisis.”

The Minister of Information and Culture was reacting to PDP’s call that President Muhammadu Buhari should return Nigeria to what it was when he took over power and resign his position as President.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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