………Tags it, a poor version of Buhari’ achievement
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Thursday condemned the Economic Blueprint of the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Lai Mohammed called the Blueprint a crude attempt at copying all that the current Administration under President Mohammadu Buhari has done.
The minister while addressing journalists in Abuja said that the assemble is ‘aimed at exposing the hypocrisy inherent in an opposition that condemns an Administration while also showcasing a blueprint that is nothing but a poor version of what’s on ground.
“Last week, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, spoke on his Economic Blueprint at an event in Lagos. Let me say, straightaway, that the so-called blueprint is a crude attempt at copying all that the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done, especially in the areas of job creation, infrastructure financing, relationship with the private sector, rejuvenation of the power sector, poverty reduction, debt management and the overall management of the economy.
“But it is more shocking that an opposition that has condemned all that this Administration has done would turn around to weave its so-called Economic Blueprint around the same things that are currently being done by the same Administration. This press conference, therefore, is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy inherent in an opposition that condemns an Administration while also showcasing a blueprint that is nothing but a poor version of what’s on ground.”
He further added, “Gentlemen, let me say that I am not really very surprised that His Excellency the former Vice President only reeled out, in his so-called Economic Blueprint, what we have been doing in the past seven years plus in infrastructure development, infrastructure financing, poverty reduction, power reform, job creation, relationship with the private sector, debt management and the overall management of the economy. That’s what you get from someone who leaves the country after losing an election, only to parachute into town when another election is due.
“It is a measure of how much this Administration has achieved in all sectors that the best the opposition could do is to seek to copy what the Administration has been doing. Yet, the opposition – in its desperation to get power – has continued to deny and derogate the Administration’s achievements.
For the record, there is nothing we have said today on the achievements of this Administration that we haven’t said before. No amount of deceit, misrepresentation, scaremongering, distortion of facts or derogation can subtract from the visible achievements of the Buhari Administration”.
Mohammed added that, the Muhammed Buhari administration is partnering with both Local and foreign bodies to tackle the challenges facing the country.
“An Administration that engaged in massive infrastructure development despite paucity of resources, an Administration that introduced the most expensive and effective poverty reduction and job creation policy in the history of this country, an Administration that re-equipped the military to tackle daunting security challenges instead of resorting to the use of mercenaries, an Administration that is moving the nation from darkness to light by embarking on the most-ambitious electricity project yet, an Administration that is partnering with the private sector to tackle the challenges facing the nation, and an Administration that borrowed to rebuild rather than for consumption should not be denigrated by an opposition that lacks originality, and an opposition that is aping a government it derides.” he said.
