Comrade
Jerry Obasi, the deputy national secretary of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), on Tuesday, March 15, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari
to convoke an economic summit before the nation’s economy overtakes his
government. Obasi made this call in an interview with Daily Post in Enugu state.
Jerry Obasi
says President Buhari has disappointed him after he went against his family and
party to support him.
He said:
“What is going on this country is quite unfortunate; I have been on the queue
for two days to get fuel, in Nigeria, the fourth oil producing country in the
entire world, whereas in non-oil producing countries, there are no queues.
“In fact, I
supported Buhari in this election, I had to go against my family and party to
support Buhari in that election, because of the state of affairs under
Jonathan, considering the fact that Enugu-Onitsha Express Road was impassable
for six years, and we had a President; also Enugu-Port Harcourt Road was not
done, all the roads in the South-East and South-South were not done for the six
years, I was using these small indices because Igbos are traders, so they need
these roads; I got disappointed and I said I was not going to vote for
Jonathan, he disappointed my people, six years would have been enough.
To me it
was crass failure, even when it is believed today by Nigerians both at home and
in the Diaspora that Buhari has failed, his failure can’t make Jonathan to have
succeeded.
“The truth
remains that the economy is in a very bad shape, the economy has been battered,
it has been given a technical knock-out, the type that Tyson used to give to
his opponents in his time, the economy has gone extinct, and just like the
statement made by Lai Mohammed that the economy has overtaken the government,
though he has come back to retract that, but he has made a confessional
statement, because tomorrow he will still tell Nigerians that he said it; the
economy to me, has been destroyed, you cannot bring a clerk in a micro finance
bank in the UK to come and superintend over Nigeria’s economy, it is not going
to take us anywhere.
The
government is already collapsing on him, and I will advise once again for him
to convoke an economic summit, because Nigerian and her economy is in comatose,
it is in an intensive care unit of economic hospital that also needs intensive
care by economic surgeons, but if we go the way we are going, I see dark days
ahead, I see terrible days ahead.
“Are we to
talk about the N5,000 promise, we are not talking about the fuel they said will
be sold an N40, even at 180, you cannot buy fuel anywhere, if you go to Malawi,
South-Africa, Ghana, you cannot see queue, so it is unfortunate, the president
should wake up, he should reduce his level of travelling, you don’t visit
economies that are stable whereas at home, the economy is dying on your lapse,
let us come out of these sentiments, the APC should understand now that it is
the ruling government, may be they forgot that they are ruling, still sounding
like the opposition.
Buhari’s appointments
are summersault appointments; you see a professor working under a first degree
holder, let us look inside, management of the country is different from a
religious body, it is different from a tribal organization, it is different
from the opposition mentality, it is so far so bad, all of us can see it, we
can’t buy food. The country has become too hot for all of us.”
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