The Buhari Media Organisation,
BMO, has accused the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of being directly responsible for the poor
conditions of millions of Nigerians’ as head of the National Council on Privatisation,
NCP.
The group further said Atiku
should note that President Buhari has been cleaning up the mess left by Atiku
and his party’s leaders, who have not shown any form of remorse.
The BMO also called on Atiku to
heed the advice of his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, and seek proper
forgiveness from Nigerians for the harm he did the country.
Chairman of the BMO, Niyi
Akinsiju, and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke, in a statement on Tuesday, noted that
the former Vice President was again pushing a false narrative ‘to fool
undiscerning Nigerians.’
“The UN body had noted that
slightly over 98 million Nigerians were living in multi-dimensional poverty,
but, as usual, the PDP presidential candidate did not fully grasp the details
before launching an attack on President Buhari.
“The report indicated that about
46 per cent of Nigerians were poor as at today, but Atiku Abubakar needs to be
reminded that 60.9 per cent of Nigerians, or 100 million people, were living
below the poverty threshold in 2010, and 120 million in 2012, according to the
World Bank, which is the body that provides a global poverty headcount.
“Interestingly, the period the
country had an exponential spike in the number of people living below $1 a day
was during the 16 unbroken years that the former Vice-President’s party held
sway in Nigeria.
“It is not a secret that Alhaji
Abubakar was the executor-in-chief of what has gone down in the annals of the
nation as a major heist of the nation’s assets, an action that later pitched
him against former President Obasanjo.
“He literally sold off several
government-owned enterprises for less than their market values to his cronies
to strip and cannibalise, and in the process, tens of thousands of workers were
denied their livelihood and laid off without benefits. It is also on record that
he kept one of the prized assets (Onne Port) to himself.
“Or, does he also have to be
reminded of the period when the nation’s Education sector virtually collapsed
but that was when he and former President Obasanjo established high profile
private secondary and tertiary institutions?
“So, if Atiku is searching for
the person who plunged Nigerians into multi-dimensional poverty, he should just
look into the nearest mirror, or maybe he could tell us how many people he
drove into penury and how many had their pensions paid, even after the terminal
date of the Obasanjo administration.
“In case he missed the latest
news, the Buhari administration, through its Pension Transitional Arrangement
Directorate (PTAD), has paid the outstanding severance package of over 1,500
verified eligible former workers and next-of-kin of deceased former workers of
Savannah Sugar Company.
“The former Vice-President cannot
say he has forgotten that these workers were not paid their benefits when they
were disengaged in 2002, after the company was privatised.
“This is just one out of many
examples of how President Buhari has been cleaning up the mess left by Atiku
and his party’s leaders, who have not shown any form of remorse but are rather
prepared to also insult the sensibilities of Nigerians.”
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