The Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday alleged that the declaration by the
supervising Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, that Nigeria was facing revenue
challenges further vindicates its stand that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks
the creative capacity and competence to run a productive economy.
PDP made the
claim while blaming the revenue challenge on what it termed “humongous
corruption” in the Presidency, which “provides official cover for leaders of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) and cronies of Mr. President to divert and
pocket over N10 trillion of our national revenue, in the last three years.”
A statement
by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “Had President Buhari take heed
to wise counsel from Nigerians to accept his incompetence, hands off economic
issues, end the corruption in his Presidency and get a strong economic team to
manage our economy, our foreign direct investments and domestic productivity
would not have crumpled.
“Nigerians
can recall how the PDP nurtured and bequeathed a very robust economy, with
thriving domestic and international revenue openings in key sectors of the
economy, and how President Buhari, in a space of three years, demarketed our
economy through his utterances, harsh economic policies, condoning of
corruption by his officials and failure to develop and drive a clear-cut economic
blueprint for the nation.
“Nigerians
expect Mrs. Ahmed to show patriotism and courage by exposing the corruption in
the financial sector under Buhari, set in motion machinery to recover the over
N10 trillion looted by the Presidency cabal and channel the fund back into the
economy.
“Our worry,
however, is that nothing much will come out from the supervising minister as
those who saw to her appointment are members of the same Presidency cabal that
used the disgraced erstwhile finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, as clearing house
to fritter away our national resources.”
“Nigerians
are already apprehensive that the supervising minister might become ethically
challenged like Adeosun, following allegations of forgery against her on the
social media where the public is already raising queries of alleged
incongruities between her claimed date of birth and dates of educational
qualifications.
“The PDP
wonders why Buhari’s key appointees are mostly persons of questionable claims;
a development that casts a long shadow on the integrity of the Buhari
administration.
“Finally,
since the supervising minister has admitted that the nation is faced with
revenue challenges under the Buhari regime, the PDP counsels Mr. President to
humbly accept his failure, get ready to accept defeat in 2019 presidential
election and quit the stage for a competent President, that would be elected on
the platform of the PDP, to return our nation to the path of economic
prosperity and national cohesion.
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