The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has joined millions of Nigerians to question the rationale behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s hiring of a Consultant from Malaysia, with the whopping sum of N458 million, to help Nigeria build her economic capacity.
Fayose raised the alarm on Sunday, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications New Media, Lere Olayinka.
Fayose said: “it is shameful that Nigeria, which produced the likes of African Development Bank (ADB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina; Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank, Mrs. Aruma Otteh; Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Plc, United Kingdom, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi; among others, is now paying people from Malaysia to revive its economy.”
Fayose added: “Out-sourcing consultancy for the conduct of study that would aid the implementation of the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), is tantamount to telling Nigerians that they all lack capacity to govern their own country.”
He asked: “How can you hire foreign Consultants that would work for 13 weeks, to conduct a study on how to revive the economy of a country like Nigeria, and pay the Consultant N458 million?”
Governor Fayose stated that he had said it several times that: “The APC government of Buhari, lacked clue as to how to solve our country’s economic problems. Now they have just confirmed that truly they are clueless.”
He said: “By hiring Economic Experts from Malaysia, President Buhari and his men have confirmed that they have no capacity to govern this country.
“It was the cluelessness of the Buhari’s government that made the exchange rate that was N197 to $1 as at May 29, 2015, rise to as much as N500 to $1, before it came down to about N370 to $1. Today, official rate is N305 to $1.
“It was this same cluelessness that made one bag of rice that was N7,000 as at the time Buhari took office, to rice to as much as N22,000, and made more than 25 States to be unable to pay workers’ salary regularly, owing to dwindled revenue from the Federation Account.
“According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), an Agency of the Federal Government, the number of unemployed Nigerians rose from 7.51 million at the beginning of October 2015, to 11.19 million, at the end of September 2016! This was caused by Buhari’s government cluelessness.
“Like I have said before, President Buhari and his men do not know what to do. It is therefore, left for Nigerians use their votes to show Buhari and his APC the way out of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in 2019.”
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