The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has reacted to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari will be defeated
in 2019.
The Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU), the research unit of The Economist Magazine and HSBC, a multinational
banking and financial services company, stated that a second term for President
Muhammadu Buhari would greatly stunt the economic development of the country,
among other doomsday prophesies on the Nigerian nation.
The EIU report indicated that the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the forthcoming presidential
election but that the next administration would flounder against the same
problems.
But the APC spokesman, Yekini
Nabena, in a statement on Wednesday, said contents of the reports were nothing
but the usual doomsday prophesies about the Nigerian nation, which has serially
been proved false, deceptive, unreliable and tendentious.
Nabena also lambasted Britain,
where the organisations are based, asking thus; “How much of this loot has the
United Kingdom, the base of these experts returned to Nigeria?”
He wrote: “The All Progressives
Congress (APC) urges Nigerians to once again disregard these “expert analysis
and prophesies.”
“We should remember similar
prophesies and analysis about the political situation in Nigeria made some
years back by similar Western institutions.
“It was prophesied that the
Nigerian federation would collapse in 2015, resulting in some ethnic
nationalities going their separate ways. Here we are, nearly four years after
the doomsday prophesy but the Nigerian federation rather than collapse is
waxing stronger, with the President Buhari administration striving to unite the
country and consolidate positively on the strength of our diversity.
“We hasten to ask why it is only
negative results and implications that The Economist, HSBC and similar
institutions always analyze and prophesy about Nigeria.
“Are they blind to all the gains
and positive impact the APC administration is making in relation to ongoing
economic reforms, fight against corruption, infrastructure drive,
counter-insurgency and the campaign to repair of our badly-eroded value system
in the country?
“Compared to past administrations
when public revenue was stolen, the quantum leap in terms of revenue accrual to
the Nigerian treasury by institutions like Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs
Service mean nothing to these “experts”.
“All the cash and property
recoveries from corrupt public officials of the immediate-past administration
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are equally of no
significance to these “experts”.
“A former minister in the
immediate-past administration who is resident in the United Kingdom is alleged
to control enough corruptly-obtained assets which value if put to productive
use could have employed thousands of Nigerians. How much of this loot has the
United Kingdom, the base of these experts returned to Nigeria?
“Of course, these experts are
conveniently oblivious of these and many similar cases. Rather than consider
the plight of Nigerians and campaign for the return of the stolen funds, these
institutions have chose to dissipate energy spewing doomsday prophesies on
Nigeria.
“In any case, if the economy,
security and social life of Nigerians will not improve in the so-called
emerging post-Buhari administration in 2019, what is the import of this
prophesy? Compared to past administrations which left the country in ruins,
Nigerians are acutely aware of which administration is rebuilding and
repositioning the country.
“We advise these economic
“experts” to focus on their pressing domestic issues and ponder for example on
the important question of the role Britain will play in the world, post Brexit.
We advise the economic physicians to heal themselves first before looking out
for other patients who have not come to them for consultation”.
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