Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has on Friday, revealed how his administration outsmarted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led a ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to be become of the leading economy in Africa.
He refuted the allegation that he was responsible for the current economic recession bedevilling the nation.
Jonathan, who stated this through his former Presidential Spokesman, Reuben Abati, in Lagos, while chatting with the Media on the state of the economy, recounted the economic achievements of ex-the immediate past administration.
He said there was danger in peddling a single side of the story of how Nigeria’s recession started, as championed by Buhari’s cabinet; stressing that repeating a lie will make people start to assume it is true.
He added, that Jonathan’s administration re-based the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of the nation and made Nigeria the largest economy in Africa.
The ex-Spokesman, further urged Nigerians to always double-check information peddled by the Buhari administration.
The ex-Spokesman, further urged Nigerians to always double-check information peddled by the Buhari administration.
Abati said: “There is something about the danger of a single story. If you look at the Jonathan government, at the risk of defending that administration, under that administration the GDP was the re-based and Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa.
“As at 2014, Nigeria had become the number one Foreign Direct Investment destination in Africa. Within the first half of 2014, this economy has gained from FDI alone about N1.15 trillion. In fact, that same year, for the first time in Africa, the World Economic Forum held in Nigeria, which was a kind of endorsement of what was been done by that administration at that time.
“It was also under that administration, that the auto motive industry was revived. It was under that administration that the national railway was revived. It was under that administration that the agricultural sector became very robust.
“I am not here to come and offer a defense, but the danger of the single story is that it ends up repeating a lie, until you assume that people will believe it. I think that people should double check some of these things,” he concluded.
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