- Atiku Abubakar has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to step down his position over comment on the shape of the country's economy
- The PDP presidential candidate said President Buhari miscalculated badly on Nigeria's economic matter
- He said Nigeria's economy has collapsed under the leadership of the present administration
The candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign his position over alleged comment on Nigeria's bad economy.
Vanguard reports that the PDP presidential candidate in a statement released by his special assistant on public communication, Phrank Shuaibu, on Sunday, December 16, said the president miscalculated badly on Nigeria's economic matter.
According to Atiku, Nigerians are simply fed up with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
He said it is sad that Nigeria's economy has collapsed under the leadership of the present administration.
The PDP candidate said Buhari “has continued to exhibit his cluelessness, incapacity and ineptitude in handling the economy by once again invoking the tired mantra of blaming the past administration and 16 years of PDP rule for his own failure.”
He also added that: "The honourable step to take is for the President to step down from his position.”
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"The confession by the President that the economy had gone out of control” was a confirmation of the forecast by the British multinational bank, HSBC “which predicted that re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 could plunge Nigeria into deeper economic hardship.”
“Unless those in-charge of the APC and the party’s supporters are, as usual, suffering from some form of self-delusion, it just does not make any sense for them to say that the APC-led federal government had brought succour to the ordinary Nigerian when President Muhammadu Buhari himself has admitted to governors of the 36 States of the federation that the economy has gone beyond his control,” Atiku said.
Highlighting major crisis faced by the country since 2015 when the APC took over power, Atiku said, in a time when leaders of nations are expected to be creative and think outside the box, the APC-led administration is still living in the Paleolithic age of blame game and buck passing as responsible for his failures.
“The exchange rate of the Naira to the US dollar when the APC assumed office in 2015 was about 170 (official rate) to the dollar. Today, it is 360 to the dollar. Today, millions of Nigerians, most of them youths, are unemployed, forcing them to become professional beggars who wait with bated breath for FG’s monthly N5,000 handout and N10,000 Tradermoni aimed at bribing them to re-elect the party in the forthcoming elections,” the statement added.
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“Power generation has actually dipped from 4,949 megawatts PDP left in 2015 to less than 3,500 megawatts even though Buhari’s handlers consistently claim that 7,000 megawatts is what is currently being generated. What more evidence do we need to know that the APC has been a curse rather than a blessing to our country.”
"The only way out of the nation’s problems is for Nigerians to vote en-mass for Atiku Abubakar whose policy document focuses on job creation, ensuring security, growing businesses, developing power, and water infrastructure, agriculture and education and how Nigeria’s next president will empower women.”
“The next generation of Nigerians are looking up to a visionary and cosmopolitan leadership, headed by a solid and steady leader, that will free up the space, remove unnecessary ancient and bureaucratic obstacles and launch Nigeria into the competitive global space instead of de-marketing the country in the eyes of the global community," Atiku added.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that President Buhari had challenged state governors to redouble efforts in addressing infrastructure deficiencies in their respective states to revamp the nation’s economy.
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The chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, said the president stated this at a closed door with the 36 State Governors of the federation in Abuja.
Yari said: “Mr President, as usual, responded by telling us that the economy is in a bad shape and we have to come together and think and rethink on way forward.
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