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‘GEJ’s legacy is a grounded economy’

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The APC says what the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is handing over is a nation in distress with so much challenges that will take a long time to resolve.
The party stated that the outgoing government continues to contrive more crises without making any effort to solve any of them.
In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed however appealed to Nigerians not to lose hope, despite the daunting challenges they were currently facing in “this atmosphere of contrived chaos”, saying help was on the way.
APC said, ”In a few days’ time, President Jonathan will hand over to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Never in the history of our country has any government handed over to another a more distressed country: No electricity, no fuel, workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and federal workers, 60 billion dollars are owed in national debt and the economy is virtually grounded.
”Today, Nigerians are roaming the streets, jerry cans in hand, searching for everything from kerosene to fuel to diesel to power their homes, keep their vehicles on the road and keep their businesses going. They are paying as much as 300 Naira per litre for fuel, if at all they can get it. Yet their government is not saying a word about the situation.”
APC said while the “Jonathan administration has arrogantly told Nigerians that it remains in office and in power till May 29, all it has been doing was sacking people and making new appointments as if it has been deprived of the opportunity to do so in the past six years.”
The incoming ruling party added, ”They are not interested in how to end the fuel scarcity that has paralysed the socio-economic lives of Nigerians, they are not interested in how to raise electricity production from its unprecedentedly-low level of 1,327 megawatts, they are not doing anything to end the strike by oil workers, or to stop the impending one.
”They have deliberately stopped meeting their obligations to oil marketers, which is now around N200bn; hence, no one is lifting petroleum products anymore. If the current energy crisis is not solved soonest, the telecommunications sector could even be grounded in a matter of days as service providers will have neither electricity nor fuel to power their base stations.
“Of course, the aviation sector has already been left comatose by the fuel crisis. The whole scenario reeks of sabotage!”
APC said before PDP and “Jonathan administration’s spin doctors distort its message, it is important to let Nigerians know that the party (APC) is not engaging in lamentations but simply keeping the citizenry informed of the situation on the ground”, with just five days to the handover date.

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  1. Sexymama

    May 25, 2015 at 6:50 am

    What do you advice now, please? That being hopeful might not be a good thing after some time as patience is wearing thin.

  2. de don

    May 27, 2015 at 9:11 am

    Please can this people stop all this criticizing and bring up plans to move the nation forward..

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