The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated President
Muhammadu Buhari over his “35 second-term
achievements”.
Recall that the Presidency had listed 35 policies,
programmes and projects as Buhari’s second-term feats.
The presidency in a statement listed the creation of new
ministries, the increment of corpers’ monthly allowance to N33,000,
N-power intervention scheme, and others as
part of the second term achievements of the president.
President Buhari established new Ministries, including
Police Affairs and Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and
Social Development, exactly a year ago, August 21, 2019,” the
presidency added.
Reacting in an interview on Friday on Channels TV, Osita
Chidoka, an adviser to PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus,
expressed surprise over the list of achievements.
Chidoka said: “I was surprised that the government released
a list of 35 achievements this year because a year ago or two years
ago, they released 64 achievements. So, even by their quantum of
achievements, the government has declined in productivity.
But when you look at the quality of the achievements, the
GDP of this country has fallen from N520bn in 2018 to N350bn… So,
everybody is poorer is this government.
“On the economy, Nigeria’s debt has risen to about N36trn.
It has grown three times to what it was in 2015. It has grown from
about N12trn, meaning that 90 per cent of our revenue is actually
going into debt servicing. So, I don’t know how that can be seen as
an achievement.
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“When you look at the debt profile, it is not as though we
borrowed money to invest but we have borrowed money to do
practically three things: they’ve used the borrowed money to
sustain the naira at an unsustainable rate from N500 that it was
during the 2015 fiasco to N360. We’ve also used this borrowing to
finance fuel subsidy. The last one is the power sector subsidy.
They are complaining that what supposed to have been done in the
power sector hasn’t been done. So, the power sector is consuming a
huge amount of foreign exchange that the government cannot
sustain.
Therefore, every Nigerian has paid for this strange 35
policies of which the number one on the agenda is the increase in
the numbers of ministries. For a country that is currently (using)
90 per cent of its revenue to service its debt, building new
ministries and bringing new people into work is certainly not what
you should tag as an achievement.”
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