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Move to hire Malaysian economic experts, ‘a vote of no confidence on Buhari’s govt’- Fayose

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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has criticised the Federal Government’s plan to hire consultants from Malaysia with the sum of N458 million to help Nigeria strengthen its economy, saying, “the federal government’s action is a clear vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government and economic experts in the country.”

The governor said, “it is shameful that Nigeria, which produced the likes of African Development Bank (ADB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina; Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank, Mrs Aruma Otteh; Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Plc, United Kingdom, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi; among others is now paying people from Malaysia to revive its economy.”

In a statement issued Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said “out-sourcing consultancy for the conduct of study that would aid the implementation of the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) is tantamount to telling Nigerians that they all lack capacity to govern their own country.”

He asked, “ How can you hire foreign consultants that would work for 13 weeks to conduct a study on how to revive the economy of a country like Nigeria and pay the consultant N458 million?”

Read also: Nigerian govt to hire economic growth expert for N458m

Fayose said his criticism of the Buhari government for lacking clue had been proven by the move, saying, “Now they have just confirmed that truly, they are clueless.”

He said, “By hiring economic experts from Malaysia, President Buhari and his men have confirmed that they have no capacity to govern this country.

“It was the cluelessness of the Buhari’s government that made the exchange rate that was N197 to $1 as at May 29, 2015 rise to as much as N500 to $1 before it came down to about N370 to $1. Today, official rate is N305 to $1.

“It was this same cluelessness that made one bag of rice that was N7,000 as at the time Buhari took office to rise to as much as N22,000 and made more than 25 states to be unable to pay workers salary regularly owing to dwindled revenue from the federation account.

“According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), an agency of the federal government, the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from 7.51 million at the beginning of October 2015 to 11.19 million at the end of September 2016! This was caused by Buhari’s government cluelessness.

“Like I have said before, President Buhari and his men do not know what to do. It is therefore left for Nigerians use their votes to show Buhari and his APC the way out of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in 2019.”

 

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  1. yanju omotodun

    November 20, 2017 at 5:04 am

    You have no point fayose, hiring economic experts from Malaysia is not a bad idea as long it yielded its main purpose.

  2. JOHNSON PETER

    November 20, 2017 at 5:15 am

    And it was your cluelessness that made you wanting to aspire for a mirage presidential ambition using your state money to finance it.

    • seyi jelili

      November 20, 2017 at 5:27 am

      Don’t mind talkative fayose, he is just being a nuisance and probably trying to campaign for himself

  3. Balarabe musa

    November 20, 2017 at 5:21 am

    #458m is a chicken feed compare to what you have stolen from the coffer of your state for irrelevant things, no amount is too big as to revamp our economy back on track.

  4. Anita Kingsley

    November 20, 2017 at 9:53 am

    This is an insult on all Nigerians, the president didn’t see anyone who is capable of dealing with Nigeria’s economic challenges as big as this country is? Na wa oo

  5. Animashaun Ayodeji

    November 20, 2017 at 10:56 am

    Hiring a foreign consultant for 13 weeks at N458 million is pure corruption, I’m surprised it’s only Fayose that’s faulting the president for this, what are other stakeholders and governors doing?

  6. Abeni Adebisi

    November 20, 2017 at 11:13 am

    Buhari should be allowed to run the country in peace, Fayose is just a major distraction who wants Buhari to notice him by all means. Since he prefers foreign hands on Nigeria’s economy, we should all allow him, if they don’t produce reasonable results, that’s when we can condemn Buhari

    • Animashaun Ayodeji

      November 20, 2017 at 11:24 am

      Wee should allow Buhari lavish our money? Thisbis the same Buhari that said Nigeria was broke, where will he nowbget the money to pay these people he’s hiring? It’s corruption

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