Zikist-Buharist Movement, ZBM,
has noted that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, failed to mention the fight against corruption in his
manifesto for the country.
Atiku had on Monday via Facebook
and Twitter unveiled his four-point agenda manifesto/policy document entitled,
“The Atiku Plan.”
Atiku’s manifesto promotes
restructuring, privatization, job creation, infrastructure development and
poverty eradication but ZBN has noted that the former Vice President failed to
include the fight against graft in his agenda.
Reacting in a statement in Enugu
on Tuesday, ZBM said that Atiku was coming to squander the nation’s treasury.
It said Nigerians should be wary
of Atiku’s demagoguery.
The statement was signed by
Stanley Ohajuruka and Godwin Onwusi, Zonal Coordinator and Acting Secretary
respectively.
ZBM said, “For we are at a loss
how best to be happier tomorrow, to create jobs and build a modern economy, but
investing hugely in critical infrastructure which the Buhari’s Rails, Roads,
Agriculture and Power (RRAP) Projects – 5,000 kilometers of federal roads,
5,000 kilometers of standard gauge rail lines, 5,000 megawatts of electricity
and self sufficiency in food production, is executing and wants to take to the
Next Level.
“It is on record that Buhari
regime inherited 345 uncompleted federal roads and despite fall in oil revenue,
had invested over N2 trillion in critical infrastructure, embarked on social
safety net and utilized over N2 trillion to bail out states from salary and
pension arrears, abandoned when the former Minister of Finance, Dr Mrs Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala bemoaned that, ‘whoever wins in 2015 will never find it easy to
govern, for I told them to save ahead of eventualities, but Jonathan had no
political will to do so and that is the reason why we are in crisis, because we
squandered our boom,’
“As a One who was in charge when
some of these roads and other projects were abandoned, may we ask His Excellency
Atiku Abubakar, his scorecard as de facto president and chairman of National
Council on Privatization (NCP), when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo then president was
globetrotting between 1999 and 2003 and delegated enormous powers to him?
“Our simple answer is that
Nigerians have no good story to tell of the privatisation exercise of the State
Owned Enterprises, under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the exercise
failed woefully and the proceeds were less than transparently accounted for, as
exemplified by NITEL, Aluminum Steel Plant, Ajaokuta Steel Plant, Electricity
Distribution Companies and sundry state assets.”
The group further stated that it
cannot trust Atiku who flagrantly jettisoned the great Nigeria media, event
managers, transporters, food vendors among others, by climbing skyward to
launch his demagoguery campaign in the Social Media via Twitter and Facebook.
“ZBM had searched for any page
where The Atiku Plan mentioned war against corruption, and couldn’t find any;
which means that the plan placed no premium on the menace of corruption and how
it underdeveloped our dear country
“In sum, it is the considered
view of ZBM that yesterday is today’s architecture. Accordingly the 2019
presidential electoral contest is a two horse race, between promoter of
squandermania or share the money syndrome and promoter of prudence of slow and
steady growth. Beware of the era of squandermania,” ZBN said.
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