Amaechi warns Wike against taking God for granted

Former Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday, warned his successor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, against taking God for granted.

Amaechi also said he decided to shun the judicial commission of inquiry set up by Wike because the panel was illegal.

Nyesom Wike and Romiti Amaechi

The ex-governor, while speaking with his supporters and members of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, stated that he would only appear before the commission of inquiry if Wike complied with the law.

Amaechi stated that the governor had already adjudged him to be guilty in the presence of members of the panel and vowed that he would go to court over the matter.

He insisted that he would not appear before the Justice George Omeriji panel until an independent person or body was called to handle the probe of his administration.

Amaechi said, “Nyesom Wike was not afraid of God in the past; he never went to church. Today, he is going on bended knees to the same God we worship. Don’t take God for granted because if we don’t go back to God to remind Him, God may answer his (Wike’s) prayers.”

Recalling how his relative was allegedly killed in front of Wike’s father’s house at Rumueprikom, the former governor called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on the Inspector-General of Police to investigate the deaths in the state.

He said, “We are asking the Federal Government to investigate it; we have written, asking for investigation but nothing has happened yet. We hope that the President will call on the IGP to investigate what happened with his policemen. We need the IGP to investigate so that people don’t encourage impunity.”

Amaechi warns Wike against taking God for granted

Stop boasting about economy achievement - Presidency tells PDP

•Bury your head in shame, presidency tells PDP

The Presidency yesterday asked the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to bury its head in shame instead of bragging about fake economic achievements while in power.

PDP and APC

It said while the PDP was in power, the economy was gasping for breath under the egregiously corrupt administration.

It said if the former ruling party was doing so well, the opposition parties would have found it difficult to defeat a popular ruling party.

The presidency blasted the PDP in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu.

The statement was a reaction to the PDP’s claim, through its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, that the economy was going down under the APC.

The statement said: “The presidency has advised the PDP to stop its pathetic efforts to play down President Buhari’s achievements in his first 100 days in office and bury its head in shame for subjecting Nigeria to the worst economic plunder through corruption in its recent history.

“The  economy of Nigeria was gasping for breath under the egregiously corrupt PDP administration, and that the country was witnessing an acceleration of poverty which  united Nigerians for change.

“The  excruciating hardship experienced by Nigerians under the PDP misrule was unprecedented. It is ridiculous to for any sane government to artificially rebase the economy and claim to transform Nigeria into the largest economy in Africa as the PDP administration did.”

He explained that the defeated former ruling party was artificially manipulating statistics to create the illusion of impressive economic performance record.

He added: “One falsehood built on another cannot stand, adding that if the PDP claim of economic successes in terms of GDP, employment generation, poverty alleviation and others were genuine, Nigerians wouldn’t have voted the party out of power.

“If the former ruling party was doing so well, the opposition parties would have found it difficult to defeat a popular ruling party.

Malam Garba Shehu said that the PDP assumed performance was nothing more than window dressing, and a detachment from reality.

The Presidential spokesman said: “No economy can grow with corruption, an area in which the PDP administration demonstrated more competence.

“Criticism for its own sake is not the Hallmark of credible opposition.

“Nigerians no longer face exploitation at filling stations because the government is taking punitive measures against marketers that punish poor Nigerians.

“Queues have disappeared at the filling stations and the Naira is also enjoying favourable exchange rate.

The Media aide said the Buhari administration has successfully blocked leakages and other avenues for corruption, practices which he said the previous PDP administration lacked the will or the desire to stop.

“As a result of the measures to block leakages, the Buhari administration has frustrated the efforts by corrupt elements to divert public funds to private pockets.

“Once the formal trial for corruption begins formally, the PDP might no longer have the moral legs to stand on, let alone talk down on Nigerians with fake claims of economic miracles under its most incompetent and grossly purposeless and sleazy administration.”

Stop boasting about economy achievement - Presidency tells PDP

Federal Appointment: Buhari to appoint more South-East to pacify aggrieved zones

SUNDAY PUNCH – There were indications on Saturday that President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress had begun moves to compensate the South-East for not getting any appointments so far in the current administration.

Buhari

SUNDAY PUNCH reliably gathered that some states in the geopolitical zone might get more than one ministerial slot.

The Presidency and the APC sources, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH on condition of anonymity, also justified the appointments made by Buhari on Thursday.

A top member of the party said the President was not unmindful of criticisms that greeted the alleged lopsided appointments.

He said, “The President has assured us that all zones that have not been represented in the appointments he has made so far will be compensated.

“For example, some states in the South-East may get more than one ministerial slots. The President is going to make board and ambassadorial appointments. All zones, including the South-East, will be represented in this government.”

Prominent Nigerians and socio-political groups, have criticised the appointments made by Buhari so far.

Out of 31 appointments made so far, 24 of the appointees are from the North and seven are from the South. The South-East has no representation in the Buhari-led government.

SUNDAY PUNCH however gathered that the emergence of the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pastor David Lawal, and the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, was the result of the politics among power blocks in the APC.

It was learnt that the two appointees belonged to the Congress for Progressive defunct Change, which Buhari led, before it merged with other parties to form the APC

A Presidency source told one of our correspondents that Lawal and Kyari were picked because of their closeness and loyalty to the President.

The source said, “Although the President is a loyal member of the party, the levels of trust he has in the members differ. There are various blocks in the APC.

“You don’t give appointments such as chief of staff and the SGF to your rival or his loyalists; you give them to those you can vouch for. Those posts are ears and eyes of the President and they are not subjected to the party’s ratification.”

It was also gathered that the latest appointments confirmed the existence of various power blocks in the APC.

It will be recalled that the CPC, led by Buhari, merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigerians Peoples Party and a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, led by the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, to form the APC.

They were later joined by five governors, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar also defected from the PDP to the APC.

Meanwhile, the Presidency, on Saturday, assured Nigerians that by the end of the series of appointments being made by Buhari, no part of Nigeria would feel alienated.

The Special Assistant to the President on Media Affairs, Mr. Garba Shehu, said this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents.

When asked if the South- East and other parts of the country, who are complaining of being marginalised by Buhari would be compensated, Shehu said appointments so far made by the President were just a few out of so many that would be made by the President.

He said, “There will be ministers, heads of government departments, federal boards and ambassadors. At the end of the exercise, no part of the country will be left feeling left out.”

Federal Appointment: Buhari to appoint more South-East to pacify aggrieved zones

Jonathan, Alison-Madueke, ex-CSO fingered in $6.9m scandal

•Security agencies probe purchase of mobile stages
•How NNPC secret account was used

Security agencies are now probing   how the administration of  former President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly withdrew $6.9million (N1.460b) from a secret account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) to buy three  12 meter (40 feet)  mobile stages for use at public events.

President Jonathan

The cash was said to be part of the unremitted funds into the Federation Account by NNPC.

The purported purchase, according to investigation, did not pass through due process and was known only to Dr. Jonathan, his then Chief Security Officer, Mr. O.J. Obuah and former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Obuah, it was gathered, raised a memo to his boss for the purchase and the release of the money to that effect.

Jonathan allegedly gave his approval and authorized the former minister to disburse the fund.

Shedding light on how the deal was struck on October 17, 2011 through a curious memo from Obuah, a source familiar with the development said preliminary investigation suggested that there was no record of purchase of the said stages.

It was learnt that the $6.9million was paid into a company’s account after NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.

The affected company, J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, was purportedly registered by Obuah.

The source said: “Between himself, his Chief Security Officer and the former Petroleum Minister, former President Goodluck Jonathan spent in just one shot deal a whopping $6.9 million dollars to buy three 40-feet mobile stages for use at public speaking events.”

Federal government investigators and security agencies, sources added, believe this is just one of the tons of alleged corrupt practices frequently engaged in and condoned under the last president.

“Besides the fact that the sum for the stages was incredibly inflated, according to mobile stage industry experts, government investigators say there is no evidence yet that any stage was purchased at all,” one source said, citing several documents.

One of the documents says: “At the centre of the fraudulent financial ring was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. O.J. Obuah who initiated a memo to the former president on October 17, 2011 asking for the purchase of three mobile stages.

“He said in that memo to the former president that this is regarding “my earlier discussion with Your Excellency on the security implication of your public appearances and your subsequent directive on the need to procure a secured presidential platform.”

“And on the same day without any financial advice or purchase order reviews, the former president minuted his approval of the request to buy the three stages to the then Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.

“In his minute, the president said ‘we have discussed this, please deal.”

“Right after that okay from the president, on the same October 17, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administrative Matters, Matt Aikhionbere did another letter on the strength of the president’s approval requesting the Petroleum Minister to take action on the request to purchase the stages for $6.9m.

“By the next month, an NNPC payment voucher number 3840336 was already in place revealing that the money was released. NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.

“It was first routed from the US bank to an NNPC account in Zenith Bank account number 5000026593, Maitama branch in Abuja, from where the money was sent to a private account. The sum of $6.9m was then credited to a Sterling Bank account of one J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, a company investigators say was registered by Obuah.”

Responding to a question, the source said: “The $6.9miilion in question was promptly paid on November 29, 2011 into a private account belonging to the former CSO.

“The former president approved the procurement of the mobile platforms without due process and bye-passing the Procurement Act neither was there an appropriation in the 2011 budget for such facility.

“Neither the minister of Finance nor the Director-General of the Budget Office was aware of the deal.

“There are no records of this purchase which was carried out late 2011.”

The preliminary findings also indicated that the cost of the stages might have been inflated.

The source said:  “According to the investigators, the cost of mobile stages depends on size and designs; only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe and the US spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages.

“Even then, those musicians and super stars would not pay over $2m per stage, according to industry sources.

“The process of procurement of the three mobile stages was not known to extant Nigerian laws and due process regulations, nor were the offices of the Auditor-General and the Accountant-General in the know.”

It was learnt that the deal was one of the issues  for which the ex-CSO was grilled quizzed by the Department of State Security(DSS) during his recent arrest and detention.

One of the officials handling the investigation added: “ The CSO himself according to investigators has not been able to show proof of the purchase and his memo irked his bosses at the SSS that he took the initiative to request  for the stages, an action which officials say was way above his pay grade.

“It is not the duty or responsibility of the CSO to make the determination on that purchase. He was meant to have informed the service, which will then review the situation and act accordingly.

“What has happened here is that the former president and the former minister with the collusion of the CSO decided to use public funds for other purposes since no one has found the stages as we speak.”

“This is just one of the several instances where the Jonathan administration used secret NNPC accounts to fund questionable projects and for alleged personal financial aggrandizements.”

It was gathered that some of these embarrassing issues were part of the matters raised by Jonathan with the National Peace Committee headed by the former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar.

The committee later facilitated a secret parley between President Muhammadu Buhari and ex-President Jonathan.

But at the session, Buhari insisted that the law must take its course with  anyone found guilty of corruption.

At the June 29th meeting of the National Economic Council at the State House, the council had raised questions over the non- remittance of the finances generated by the NNPC into the Federation Account.

Jonathan, Alison-Madueke, ex-CSO fingered in $6.9m scandal

#FreeAJStaff: Al Jazeera condemns Egypt verdict

Following today’s retrial verdict in Cairo, Al Jazeera Media Network’s Acting Director General Dr Mostefa Souag said:

Al Jazeera journalist in Prison

“Today’s verdict defies logic and common sense. Our colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy will now have to return to prison, and Peter Greste is sentenced in absentia.”

The whole case has been heavily politicized and has not been conducted in a free and fair manner.  There is no evidence proving that our colleagues in any way fabricated news or aided and abetted terrorist organisations and at no point during the long drawn out retrial did any of the unfounded allegations stand up to scrutiny. A report issued by a technical committee assigned by the court in Egypt contradicted the accusations made by the public prosecutor and stated in its report that the seized videos were not fabricated,. Baher, Peter and Mohamed have been sentenced despite the fact that not a shred of evidence was found to support the extraordinary and false charges against them.

“Today’s verdict is yet another deliberate attack on press freedom. It is a dark day for the Egyptian judiciary; rather than defend liberties and a free and fair media they have compromised their independence for political reasons.”

“Al Jazeera Media Network will continue to call for their freedom and an end to the ordeal for Baher, Peter and Mohamed and the six Al Jazeera staff who were sentenced in absentia”.

“The support shown for Baher, Peter and Mohamed has been loud and unified and has come from every corner of the world, from world leaders, journalists, human rights organisations and the general public. Alongside demanding the release of our colleagues, Al Jazeera calls on every one to continue the fight for the freedom of speech, for the right of people to be informed and for the right of journalists around the world to be able to do their job.

“We will not rest until Baher, Peter, Mohamed and the six Al Jazeera staff sentenced in absentia are freed and formally and definitively acquitted from the trumped up charges against them.”

Journalism is not a crime.

#FreeAJStaff: Al Jazeera condemns Egypt verdict

President Buhari, The North And The Dangers Ahead, By Inibehe Effiong

The assumption that capacity, antecedents and credibility are the sole parameter guiding the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari is logically and morally untenable. We cannot be swimming endlessly in the ocean of hypocrisy pretending that there is nothing wrong in President Buhari exuding ethnic bias and bigotry in making key appointments. What competence? Is it the competence of Northerners or is the president so stereotyped that he can only see competent people from a particular section of the country?.

A perfect story for the gods.

Buhari

Nigeria is an already polarised and deeply divided nation. The least one would have expected from Buhari is to be sensitive to the urgency for national healing and unity. For a man who was rejected by the electorates at three previous elections principally because of the fear that he is a divisive figure whose sense of perception and judgment is dictated by ethnic and religious considerations to be giving credence to the very issue that truncated his previous aspirations for the presidency is to say the least disappointing. We need to tell ourselves the truth, a divided country cannot prosper. The American president, Barrack Obama, said that much when he hosted Buhari recently.

Those canvassing the view that president Buhari is at liberty to make his appointments the way it suits him provided the nation is salvaged are within their constitutional right to freedom of thoughts and expression. This view is unfortunately rather pretentious and simplistic. Development cannot be driven without the cooperation of the citizens and that cooperation is lost when people have a strong perception that the leader is pursuing a primordial interest. One of the hallmarks of responsible and successful leadership is the ability of the leader to galvanise divergent interests in a manner that promotes inclusiveness and a sense of belonging among the mass of the citizenry.

Nigeria is undeniably an heterogeneous country with its attendant cultural, religious, social and political diversity. Our forebears understood the complexity of Nigeria which informed their preference for a federal system of government and even regionalism as practiced in the first republic. When the military stroked in 1966, they set aside the very arrangement that encouraged growth and development. We are yet to recover from that tragic mistake of history.

Upon return to democratic rule, the framers of our Constitution in their wisdom opted for a federation, though imperfect, as contained in Section 2 (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). They went further to compliment this provision by inserting the federal character principle in Section 14 (3) of  the Constitution.

The intention and substance of the federal character principle is to ensure that the composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few State or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.

President Buhari has made key appointments into his government in a manner that has undeniably resulted in the predominance of persons from a particular section of the country and ethnic group – the North, in his government. This is not only repulsive to the heterogeneous nature of Nigeria but a brazen violation of the constitutional provisions on federal character. It is hypocritical for people to be agitating for true federation while ignoring the federal character principle.

I support meritocracy. I believe that people should be elected and appointed into leadership positions base on their capacity and credibility to deliver. The issue is not really a contest between meritocracy and federal character. The real issue in controversy is whether president Buhari has wilfully and tactically discriminated against qualified and competent Nigerians from other sections of the country? Discriminatory appointments cannot be excused under the guise meritocracy. Anyone that is unable to find competent and credible people from all parts of a vast country like Nigeria to work with is not suitable for the presidency.

We need to be very practical about the consequences of what the president is doing. An insider in the presidency hinted a friend long before now that the president’s delay in making key appointments was because of intense pressure and insistence from the Northern political class that key positions, including the Secretary to the Government of the Federation must come from the North. The source further hinted that president Buhari had personally expressed preference for Mr. Femi Adesina as his spokesperson but was blackmailed by the same Northern political class into equally appointing Mr. Garba Shehu for the same duty for regional balance.

Some commentators in an attempt to justify the president’s discriminatory appointments have stated that his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, did the same thing. But Buhari’s campaigns was premised on change. Nigerians voted for change not for the escalation of the sins and infractions of Jonathan. Others have opined that at the end of the day what really matters is development. That is appealing. But the problem with this contention is that it downplays the complexity of Nigeria. Once there is ethnic mistrust, attention will be focused on sentiments and centrifugal considerations.

As a vociferous supporter of President Buhari, I am worried that the goodwill that brought him to power is dwindling because of his appointments. Buhari needs to appreciate the fact that ethnicity and tribalism is still very much in the blood of Nigerians. We are not not yet a true nation, as such, any leader that wants to succeed must be sensitive to the diverse character of Nigeria.

Those of us who went all out in support of Buhari’s candidacy owe him a responsibility to tell him the truth at all times. Pretensions will not help his administration. I understand many of us who want the president to succeed at all cost are reluctant to disagree with him on any issue to avoid being labelled.

In his attempt to defend the indefensible, presidential media aide, Mr. Femi Adesina, stated during an interview on Ray 100.5 FM on Friday August 28, 2015 that president Buhari will “balance” his appointments in September; a clear admission that the appointments so far are not balanced. So what is the argument about if the presidential media aide himself has alluded to the imbalanced nature of the appointments?.

Why do we have quota system in our educational system which gives some states and parts of the country undue advantage over others? Why should a candidate from Akwa Ibom State be required to score far higher than his peer in Borno State in examinations to be eligible for admission? Why do we have some states practicing Sharia law in a so-called secular state? How come that voices that were vociferous in accusing former president Jonathan of “marginalising the North” are now preaching the gospel of meritocracy? How come that the Arewa Consultative Forum has suddenly lost her voice since the emergence of president Buhari? These and many more questions makes it deceitful for anyone to say that the president can make appointments any how.

Our diversity is visible to the blind.

I concede to those who say that politicians have over the years exploited our differences for selfish political gains. But the hard truth is that Buhari is widening our differences by skewing his appointments overly in favour of a section of the country. I agree that technocrats who do not have much vested political interests should be appointed into critical positions. But I strongly disagree that only technocrats from a particular section of the country should be appointed by the president.

Can president Buhari honestly say today by his recent appointments that he belongs to nobody, and that he belongs to everybody?.

President Buhari needs to rise above primordial sentiments. We elected him as the president of Nigeria and not as the head of the Arewa House. This may not be the intention of the president, but perception is very important. I am a pan-Nigerian and pro one Nigeria. If radical remedial measures are not taken by the president to disabuse the minds of members of the public on this perception, every action and policy of his administration in the future may be greeted with allegations of ethnic bias and prejudice and the consequences on the polity and the success of his government are very predictable.

This is the danger that our dear president should avoid and I pray that God should give him a stronger spirit of discernment and the courage to do what is best in the overall interest of Nigeria.

In all, I love Buhari but I love Nigeria the more.

Inibehe Effiong

inibehe.effiong@gmail.com

President Buhari, The North And The Dangers Ahead, By Inibehe Effiong

Nigerian economy worsen under Buhari - PDP laments

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday wrote off the economy, accusing the Buhari administration of destroying it since assuming office on May 29.

Olisah Metuh

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief OlisaMetuh, the party said the “shambolic state” of the economy within the period represented the worst in the nation’s contemporary history.

The situation, the party said, was a fallout of uncertainty created by the government’s inability to chart a clear-cut economic policy, adding that the matter is worsened by abuse of regulations, and flagrant violation of constitutional provisions.

According to the PDP, official reports showed that the last three months under the APC-led government had brought a sudden decline in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with attendant losses and hardship to the citizens.  The government, it said, embarked on propaganda of imaginary achievements, in addition to attempts to foist harsh economic regime to cover its ineptitude.

The statement reads: “If not for crass incompetence or a possible ulterior motive to subjugate Nigerians for selfish reasons, what else explains the adamant stance of this administration in running a government without the statutory components of a full cabinet and precise fiscal policy direction, even when the negative consequences of this strange totalitarian approach are taking serious toll on the economy and the polity in general?

“Whereas the APC led government is busy with its propaganda of imaginary achievements, official reports from the National Bureau of Statistics show that that the economy is being grounded with Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) plunging with about 2.35%, while job creation has dropped by 69 percent.

“In the last three months under an inept and poorly coordinated APC-led government, our nation’s economy, which before now, held the record as the largest in Africa and one of the fastest growing in the world, suddenly plummeted as officially evidenced in the lull in the capital and money market sectors which have lost billions of naira; spiral rate of inflation, and stagnation in domestic and foreign direct investments, with investors scared away due to the uncertainty arising from lack of economic direction and apparent confusion in the polity.

“This is in addition to the halt in infrastructure development projects in most parts of the country with associated massive job loss, closure of auxiliary small scale businesses, low purchasing power of citizens, among other negatives that have bedevilled the economy since the coming of this government, despite the much APC celebrated promissory notes from the President’s diplomatic shuttles, especially his recent visit to the United States.

“Nigerians would recall that we recently raised alarm on the negative consequences of the recent foreign exchange transaction restrictions, wherein this government is making it impossible for honest Nigerians to engage in free trade and regulate their personal activities as guaranteed by the constitution.

“We also warned about the consequences of foisting a communist economic regime with bans and clampdowns on free trade and the freedom of Nigerians to freely open and operate domiciliary accounts as provided by the Foreign Exchange Monitoring And Miscellaneous Provisions Act, otherwise known as Decree No. 17 of 1995 and wondered whether the nation was not heading back to the era of import duty licenses and regulation of commodity prices.

“Only recently, Fitch Rating, which, under the previous administration, affirmed Nigeria’s long-term foreign and local currency IDRs as well as senior unsecured bond and Short-term foreign currency IDR ratings respectively at ‘BB”s, had now alerted that Nigerian banks and other businesses in the sector would be adversely affected by the economic slowdown occasioned by the incompetence of the President Buhari-led APC government.

“This is more so as the absence of ministers have left the coordination of important government policies in ministries, departments and agencies in tatters, while creating loopholes for overzealous persons claiming closeness to the President to invade the system for inflated concessions, allocations, jobs and other financial sleazes, including misleading the President for approvals outside his limits.

“We invite Nigerians to note that whereas the Presidency has gone ahead to unilaterally deplete the funds inherited in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) and other government savings, as well as reports of engaging in discussions with the World Bank for loans without recourse to appropriate statutory arms of government, no corresponding improvement has been witnessed in the economy. Indeed, we are worried that the damage already done in the last 90 days may linger with us for years to come.

“Nigerians are no longer in doubt that they have been scammed with long list of empty promises which the APC government has no intentions or capacity to fulfil. The free meals for school children, allowances for discharged Corps Members, N5,000 monthly allowance for indigent Nigerians, free houses, bringing the dollar to the same value as the naira and other bogus promises for which they were voted into power, have become streams of mirage.

“Instead, what we continue to witness is the outworn excuse of clearing the so-called Augean Stable, loud propaganda and artful move to appropriate the achievements made by the PDP-led administration; such as the effort in ending polio, the improvement in power supply, the reopening of the refineries, among others which are a dividend from numerous investments by the previous administrations.

“Finally, we state categorically that Nigerians are becoming tired and weary of the diversions and propaganda of creating imaginary achievements, dramatisation of routine appointments, offering mundane excuses for crass incompetence and orchestrating a selective and witch-hunt of anti-corruption crusade”

Nigerian economy worsen under Buhari - PDP laments