The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, have teamed up against President Muhammadu Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, over the poor state of the economy.
In separate statements they issued on Sunday, August 14, the two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the economic situation of Nigerians had gone worse, since the inception of the Buhari administration.
Specifically, Fayose said Nigerians were suffering under the APC government, because “the country is in the hands of wrong managers, who do not know what to do, and out of nepotism, not ready to be assisted by those who know”.
The Governor maintained that, “Presently, Nigerians are suffering, hungry and angry, because the APC Federal Government has run the country aground”.
In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said, Nigeria was experiencing the worst form of nepotism in the history of the country, saying: “Nepotism is the reason our President discarded competent people in his party that should be running the government with him, and opted for his relatives, friends, in-laws and very close associates.
“The most influential person in the Presidency today, is said to be one Mamman Daura, who is a nephew of the President.
Personal Assistant to President Buhari, is said to be the son of Daura, while the State Chief of Protocol, is said to be married to Daura’s daughter.
“Most of those people who aided the emergence of Buhari, must be having a rethink now, but it is too late.“Nigerians voted for change, because the APC promised them solutions to the country’s problems, but all we hear every day from the APC Federal Government, are complaints upon complaints, as if Nigerians elected a government of complaints.“Obviously, the APC government has failed Nigerians and the President has resorted to putting his immediate family members and close associates in key government positions, to protect himself from the fear of the unknown that has enveloped him”.
On his part, Fani-Kayode, said in the last one year and two months, Nigeria had witnessed a reversal of all the milestones recorded.
In a statement he issued in Abuja, the former Minister, who was the spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, said the country was fast turning to a Police State, where freedom of speech is no longer guaranteed.
“In a year and two months, graduate and non-graduate unemployment has soared, banks and companies are retrenching, manufacturers are closing their factories and plants, industries are collapsing, farmers are complaining, and businessmen and traders are crying. That is ‘Mai Chanji’ for you. Yet it gets worse.“One year and two months ago, Nigerians could buy a bag of rice for N8000, but today they are paying N20, 000 naira for that same bag of rice.“As Pastor Reno Omokri, a former Aide to President Jonathan said, if the minimum wage is N18, 000, where are the people meant to get the money to buy rice and other basic food commodities for their families?“One year and two months ago, we were generating 5,000 megawatts of power for the electrical grid, but today we are generating less than 2,000 megawatts”, he stated.
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