Akin Onigbinde, a professor, has described the
achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as the “reality we
cannot see”.
According to PUNCH, Onigbinde
made the remark during the 2nd annual lecture of Freedom Online in Ikeja,
Lagos.
The professor and senior advocate
of Nigeria (SAN) was said to be reacting to figures reeled out by Femi Adesina,
presidential spokesman, on the successes of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
led government since 2015.
Adesina reportedly said only
those who chose to be willfully blind and those playing politics would not
acknowledge the government’s achievements or claim not to have felt its impact.
“How about the stock market in
2017? The Nigerian stock market ended as one of the best performing in the
world,” Adesian was quoted to have said.
“Five million new taxpayers were
added since 2016… between 2016 and 2017, government spent N2.7tn on infrastructure,
unprecedented in Nigeria’s history. If you choose to be willfully blind, even
if they put something in your face you won’t be able to see it.”
But Onigbinde told Adesina that
he only hears and sees the figures on television but does not see a reflection
in reality.
“I welcome my friend, Adesina,
telling us the reality we cannot see; we are not wearing glasses, these are
things I encounter on a daily basis. I have heard about the Metro Rice in Ogun
State, I saw it only on television; it is not in Daleko Market and the rice is
also not in Kuto,” Onigbinde said.
“I live in Bodija, I can’t see
this rice. But Femi is my brother, he has a duty to direct our gaze to what we
cannot see and we begin to see things in our imagination.”
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