Lai Mohammed Says Nigerians Should Blame Jonathan’s Government For Bad Economy

The present decline in Nigeria’s economy and the
continuous fall of the naira against the dollar has
caused for several stakeholders to cry out and
complain about the state of things.
Minister of Information Lai Mohammed however
thinks the blame should be faced towards the
immediate past administration. He said that the
Jonathan administration plundered National wealth
and turned the CBN into their piggy banks.
He said if the party had won the Presidential
election, Nigerians economy would not have survived
one more month …
“Some people still have the temerity to insult a
government that is working hard to turn things
around for the citizens, who are bearing the brunt
of such mismanagement. It is now clear to all
Nigerians that if the PDP had won the last general
elections, Nigeria’s economy would not have survived
one more month, considering the battering it
received under the immediate past Administration.
It is therefore unconscionable that those who should
show contrition and humility to avoid public
disgrace are the same ones pointing accusing fingers
at the Buhari Administration.”he said
Lai Mohammed described the comments credited to
the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu which
stated that ‘businesses may collapse in the next six
months because the Buhari Administration has
mismanaged the economy’ as the clearest indication
that the PDP and its leaders are still in denial of the
massive destruction they inflicted on the Nigerian
economy. According to him, Ike Ekweremadu
(Senator) complained about the depreciation of the
naira without telling Nigerians, who ‘dollarized’ the
Nigerian economy by bribing many individuals and
groups with dollars during the last elections, thereby
causing a downward drift on the local currency.
Lai added that the Senate deputy President failed to
tell Nigerians which government presided over the
frenzied mop-up of dollars, either for ‘arms – gate’ or
for slush fund purposes from the CBN to a point
where it almost ran out of the hard currency.
He said that though the Buhari Administration met
an economy that was in coma, it has refused to use
that as an excuse for inaction, hence has been
working hard on measures that will turn the
economy around and greatly offer relief to Nigerians
by lifting millions, not thousands of people out of
poverty through a massive social intervention policy.
He further noted that the outcome of the months of
hard work will manifest soon in the 2016 national
budget that will give succor to millions of Nigerians,
who are reeling from the fallout of the mistake of the
immediate past Administration which has turned the
country into a cash market.
He advised the leaders of PDP and members of the
immediate past Administration, who are involved in
the emerging cases of looting spree to urgently
return to government coffers, the funds they have
taken from the treasury.
”They are lucky that Nigerians are not as reckless as
they are, otherwise they would not be able to walk
around freely; not even to have the confidence
challenge the Government which inherited their rot
or the citizens suffering the consequences. They
looted the billions of naira that were allocated for
the fight against insurgency, causing many innocent
and patriotic soldiers to die needlessly. Yet, they are
not remorseful. They looted the treasury to influence
the last elections, doling out money as if it was going
out of fashion, yet they have continued in brag. In
the latest revelation, a Minister under the immediate
past dispensation admitted to sharing 600 million
naira to six Chairmen of the Contact and
Mobilization Committee of the PDP for the last
general elections, 300 million naira to an account
given by a former PDP Chairman, 200 million naira
to a PDP governorship candidate and 100 million
naira to a former PDP Governor. This is just one case
out of many, yet these revelations are but a tip of
the iceberg of what Nigerians will hear in the days
ahead.” he added.