The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has described the economic blueprint recently unveiled by Atiku Abubakar as a “crude attempt at copying all that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done’’.
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the Minister said the blueprint is a poor version of the present government’s economic strides.
The minister expressed shock that an opposition party that has on several occasions criticized its policies is currently adopting it for its campaign,
According to Him, the present administration has made giant strides through its economic blue print which has translated into the creation of over three hundred and two thousand jobs and over eight thousand kilometers of road across the country amongst others.
“Let me say, straight away, that the so-called blueprint is a crude attempt at copying all that the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done, especially in the areas of job creation, infrastructure financing, relationship with the private sector, rejuvenation of the power sector, poverty reduction, debt management and the overall management of the economy,” Alhaji Mohammed asserted.
” Am not really very surprised that His
Excellency the former Vice President only reeled out, in his so-called Economic Blueprint, what we have been doing in the past seven years plus in infrastructure development, infrastructure financing, poverty reduction, power reform, job creation, relationship with the private sector, debt management and the overall management of the economy.
“That’s what you get from someone who leaves the country after losing an election, only to parachute into town when another election is due.
“It is a measure of how much this Administration has achieved in all sectors that the best the opposition could do is to seek to copy what the Administration has been doing. Yet, the opposition – in its desperation to get power – has continued to deny and derogate the Administration’s achievements.
“For the record, there is nothing we
have said today on the achievements of this Administration that we haven’t said before. No amount of deceit, misrepresentation,
scaremongering, distortion of facts or derogation can subtract from the visible achievements of the Buhari Administration.
“An Administration that engaged in massive infrastructure development despite paucity of resources, an Administration that
introduced the most expansive and effective poverty reduction and job creation policy in the history of this country, an Administration that
re-equipped the military to tackle daunting security challenges instead of resorting to the use of mercenaries, an Administration that is moving the nation from darkness to light by embarking on the most-ambitious electricity project yet, an Administration that is
partnering with the private sector to tackle the challenges facing the nation, and an Administration that borrowed to rebuild rather than for consumption should not be denigrated by an opposition that lacks originality, and an opposition that is aping a government it derides”.
