Former presidential aide, Reno
Omokri says Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fahola on Thursday
“exposed” President Buhari and Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed as liars.
He said Fashola, while trying to
defend himself from allegations of ineptitude as regards the epileptic power
supply in the country, ended up vindicating both Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the
PDP, albeit unintentionally.
Reno noted that at various
occasions since coming to power on May 29, 2015, both Buhari “and his lying
parrot, Lai Mohammed, have attempted to sell the false narrative that the
Jonathan administration and the Peoples Democratic Party, destroyed Nigeria’s
economy and handed over a collapsed polity”.
He recalled that on the 14th of
August, 2017, Buhari through his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said: “With due
respects to the former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, these are the facts
about the economy you left behind, in case you have forgotten. I hope this will
help to erase the wrong statement credited to you at your party, the PDP
Convention at the Eagle Square last weekend that you handed to President Buhari
a robustly healthy economy.”
According to Reno, Lai on 26th of
January 2018, in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, said as follows: “I think
it will be tragedy for this country for PDP to come back because they have not
even apologised to the nation for how they had destroyed our economy, destroyed
our infrastructure, destroyed our quality, and so far from their campaign, ask
them how they will do it better when they get there.”
Continuing, the author pointed
out that speaking on February 1, 2018 at a civil society engagement workshop on
the Power Sector Recovery Programme in Abuja, Fashola stated as follows: “We
hear all our so-called experts who say (non-availability of) power is why the
economy of Nigeria is not growing.”
“That is not factual and it is
not correct. At the time when we had less power in 2013 and 2014, the economy
of this country was growing at seven per cent per annum. We had less power then
than we have now, but the economy was growing.”
Reno insisted that the Buhari
government cannot suppress “the fact that former President Jonathan developed
and grew Nigeria’s economy at an unprecedented and consistent growth rate of
over 6% per annum and handed over a thriving economy that was projected by
CNNMoney to be the third fastest growing economy in the world when Dr. Jonathan
handed over power to President Buhari.”
“Unfortunately, due to the
ineptitude of the Buhari administration, a booming economy became an economy in
recession in just one year under the All Progressive Congress.
“And this is not the only recent
example of the vindication of former President Jonathan by the Buhari
administration.
“Only recently, lying Lai
Mohammed responded to the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo by
claiming that the Buhari administration had increased the nation’s foreign
reserve from the $24 billion it met it to $40 billion.
“The question for Lai Mohammed is
this: From who did Buhari inherit the $24 billion? From ghosts? From Killer
Fulani herdsmen?
“In light of the vindicating
statements by Raji Fashola, I hereby call on both President Muhammadu Buhari
and lying Lai Mohammed to tender an unreserved apology to former President
Jonathan sad the PDP and to henceforth commit to returning Nigeria’s economy at
least to the state that they met it when Dr. Jonathan handed over power to them
on May 28, 2015.”
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