Former President Goodluck Jonathan
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Rotimi Fasakin has said the country was on its way to economic recession before President Muhammadu Buhari took over.
Fasakin noted that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan had rued the country’s economic before Buhari came to power.
“Somebody may look fine yesterday and die suddenly and people won’t realize that the man died because his internal organs had suffered damage,” he told Punch.
“Under the PDP and former President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s internal organs had suffered damage and it was ready to die.
“It was when Buhari came that the problem opened up properly because the economy was subjected to open banditry. On their own, they set aside over $2bn to fight insecurity and insurgency and they shared the money among themselves. How many projects has Buhari started on his own?
“Buhari has not initiated any project. It is the abandoned projects of Jonathan that he is completing. Let me tell you, the recession was waiting to happen.
“When we wake up as Nigerians, we should go on our knees and thank the God of heaven that Jonathan did not win the presidential election in 2015, otherwise Nigeria would have been on sale because of the plundering that had taken place.
“Concerning the recession you spoke about, companies that were handling various projects and contracts had to lay off their workers because the PDP-led government was not paying them.
“The reverberation of that culminated into our recession but this government started paying them and they started engaging their workers again. Now, at least one Federal Government funded project is going on simultaneously in each state of the federation.”