PDP to APC: Great leaders turn recession around, not cry like babies

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has again called on President Muhammadu Buhari –led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, to stop whining and crying like babies, and seek solution to turn the country around.

While it asked APC to stop blaming PDP for its maladministration, the party said that Buhari’s government needed to be told that great leaders take over countries either in recession or war and still succeed in turning them around.

This is contained in a statement the party’s National Caretaker Committee spokesperson, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, released in Abuja on Sunday.

The party also cautioned people like the governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru, who also stated that the past administration should be blamed for the country’s economic recession, asking if he has forgotten that some of the present members of Buhari’s cabinet frustrated President Jonathan’s efforts to save for the rainy day.

“It is really disappointing that a notable personality as highly-placed as a state governor could be drawn into making idle and pedestrian claims without the benefit of facts. It is either he does not realise the obligation of speaking responsibly in that position or he is grossly ill-informed.

“In which case, we could only try to put the facts before him, and hoping he would recognise them. In the first place, this blame is misplaced because our elementary understanding of economics teaches us that the major cause of recession is inflation and poor handling of the economy given that the higher the rate of inflation, the more impoverished people become, industrial production and GDP decline resulting in massive job losses.

“Perhaps, we should quote those who should know and tell Governor Badaru that wrong economic policies of the APC-led government caused the current stagnation and recession in the country,” Adeyeye said.

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PDP made reference to a statement credited to the President of the Nigerian Employers Consultative Association, Mr Larry Ettah as Adeyeye said, “Ettah did not mince words when he said a few days ago that, ‘It is quite evident that the lack of clarity about the economic agenda of the current government contributed to the current economic stagnation and recession.

“In recent times at our AGMs, we have variously described our operating environment as challenging, unpredictable, unstable and energy sapping. These words are of course, true and descriptive of what our members have experienced in keeping their businesses afloat.’

“However, beyond that, we make bold to tell Governor Badaru that Jonathan and the PDP government saw this coming since 2011, and wanted to deregulate the sale of hydrocarbons in 2012, but Badaru and his co-travellers who are now in the APC frustrated the effort.

“Thank God some of them are among the ‘best brains’ in the APC Federal Government of today,” he said.

According to Adeyeye, it was characters like Badaru who opposed professionals that advised Buhari’s government to woo investors.

He then said that the APC should be reminded that “great leaders take over countries either in recession or war and still succeed in turning them around; quite unlike the prevailing situation where a ruling party plunges the economy into an avoidable recession, only to turn round and begin to whine helplessly like a baby.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

 

 

 

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