PDP urges new leaders to focus on economy

PDP urges new leaders to focus on economy

PDP urges new leaders to focus on economy

• ‘APC dramatizing routine procedures’
From the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came
a charge yesterday that the in-coming cabinet of
the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led
government should quickly settle down, move
fast and focus on the economy.
The opposition party said that the President
Muhammadu Buhari administration has so far
played heavily on dramatizing routine procedures
and processes, which was even glaring in the
prolonged swearing-in ceremony of the ministers.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief
Olisa Metuh, said in a statement yesterday that
the much-expected assignment of portfolios to
the ministers did not inspire confidence that
there is indeed any change being introduced in
the system.
The party said with the inauguration, the APC
administration should fully resolve the issues on
the actual position of the nation’s economy and
the direction therein.
“Whereas President Buhari had announced that
the nation is bankrupt to the extent he cannot
pay his ministers, his new Minister of Information
had contradicted him directly by stating how the
government is buoyant and ready to deploy $2.5
billion infrastructure fund, saved N1.4 trillion with
another N2.5 trillion ready as special intervention
fund, which goes to say that the country is not
actually broke.
“These new ministers should note the challenge
before them regarding the image of the country
which the APC government has changed from
being the ‘Heart of Africa’ and a country of
‘Good people, Great nation’ to that of ‘Corrupt
people, Broke nation’.
“Furthermore, we counsel the ministers,
especially those who will be the face of the
government, to note that the campaigns are
over. Nigerians therefore will no longer condone
propaganda, lies and deceit but expect a
responsible dissemination based on truth,
honesty and openness”.