Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku
Abubakar has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of having nothing to
show for steering the ship of the nation for about four years. He said
90 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty under his watch.
Atiku
took on the President over his remarks at the kick-off of his
presidential campaign in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on December
28, where he declared that he had fulfilled his promises to Nigerians.
The
former vice president, reminded the President that a day before he made
the declaration, it was revealed that the number of Nigerians living in
extreme poverty had increased from 87 million to 90 million in just
four months.
In a statement yesterday by his media adviser, Mr. Paul
Ibe, the PDP presidential candidate said going by rising poverty rate,
the whole country will be in extreme poverty if Nigerians make the
mistake of re-electing Buhari.
The statement said: “Except the
President made a vow to impoverish Nigerians, it is hard to see how he
could have fulfilled his promises with such pervasive poverty and hunger
in the land.
“This is even as the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics
revealed a week to the President’s unfortunate statement that
unemployment had doubled from the 14 per cent he met it in May 2015 to
23.1 per cent in December of 2018.
“But the most blatant insult from
the President was his assertion at Uyo that ‘we have defeated Boko
Haram’. It was most insensitive of the President to have said such on a
day that foreign and domestic media reported the entrapment of our
gallant troops by Boko Haram/ISWAP in Baga, with as many as 700 hundred
reported missing.
“Even more indicting is the statement from the US
based International Strategic Studies Association, which revealed that
the Boko Haram insurgency was lingering due to the massive corruption
around President Muhammadu Buhari.
“How would those soldiers feel,
how would their families feel, how would their colleagues in the
barracks feel when they are facing a life and death situation and their
commander-in-chief is impervious to reality?”
“And, for the umpteenth
time, we call on President Muhammadu Buhari to come clean on the
faceless people behind Keystone Bank and Etisalat. Nigerians deserve to
know how people who used to beg for N2000 transport money, as revealed
by Buhari’s right hand man, Buba Galadima, are now suddenly wealthy
enough to acquire multi billion dollar investments.
“Finally, we
cannot wait for the presidential debate where Atiku Abubakar will talk
about his plans to reduce the unemployment rate from 23.1 per cent under
Buhari to single digits, because Atiku means
Source:- Thenationonlineng
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