The Presidency has called out
Kingsley Moghalu, the 2019 Young Progressives Party, YPP, presidential
candidate, over a statement regarding President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence at
G7 2019 summit.
Moghalu had in a post on his
Twitter page described President Buhari’s absence at the G7 summit as
disgraceful, while making reference to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The tweet read: “It’s sad that
President of Africa’s supposedly largest economy wasn’t invited to the G7
summit in France but @PaulKagame of Rwanda and @CyrilRamaphosa of South Africa
were. Our country should be at the table, not on the menu! Obasanjo, like him
or not, was at the table.
“Now, Ghana is now eating our
cake in West Africa. It’s getting more foreign investment than Nigeria. Obama
visited there but not us. We should face the fact of our decline and what to do
about it, instead of puerile not-picking arguments!”
But Buhari’s Senior Special
Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu in response said the
non-invitation of Buhari to witness G7 meeting this year “is not a snub and
does not diminish Nigeria’s status as the biggest economy.”
Shehu described Moghalu as being
ignorant and playing petty politics, adding that not all countries get invited
every year.
Shehu on his official Twitter
page wrote: “Moghalu is either ignorant or playing petty politics. The
non-invitation of President Buhari to witness the G7 meeting this year is not a
snub.
“Neither does it diminish the
status of Nigeria as the biggest economy on the continent. It seems no one
clarified to the one-time Presidential Candidate how the G7 secretariat works.
“If they invite a country with an
economy the size of Niger State, not Kano’s, not even Lagos’s does it call for
Dr. Moghalu’s lamentation? Today, as we see it, they call this country,
tomorrow they decide to have another. It’s entirely up to them.
“Buhari didn’t go to Europe.
Europe came to him in Japan, where the EU had him sign an MOU for 50 Million
Euro in support to the country’s devastated North East.
“The joke is not on President
Buhari. The joke is on Moghalu for attempting to make ignorance fashionable.”
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