The Buhari Media Organization
(BMO) has described the criticism by Atiku Abubakar of the Buhari
administration’s plan to borrow $29.6 Billion to fund critical infrastructure
in the country, as a litany of lies, fallacies and propaganda aimed at
hoodwinking the Nigerian people.
The group in a statement signed
by Niyi Akinsiju and Cassidy Madueke, its Chairman and Secretary, described the
article as a manifestation of Atiku’s desperation to remain relevant by
creating issues where there are none, through subterfuge and shameless lies.
“Atiku Abubakar made clearer his
apparent inability to appreciate the truth when he wrote that article. He
forgot so easily that he served as Vice President in the Obasanjo Presidency,
during which Nigeria earned over 27 Trillion Naira in 8 years, from crude oil
alone, but for which the country had nothing to show for it. In fact, his
government and the subsequent PDP administrations left no legacy project for
the Nigerian people that they can today point to.
“The only legacy that the Atiku
and PDP administrations can point to are corruption cases being prosecuted
against them, bad roads, insufficient and ill-equipped hospitals and schools,
and neglected institutions – all these are what the President Buhari administration
is seeking to turn around with the money it seeks to borrow.
“If Atiku and his PDP gang had
even done ten per cent of what the Buhari administration is doing today with
its meagre earnings, Nigeria would have been far more developed than it is
today. Unfortunately, they chose to squander Nigeria’s resources, and choke the
future for coming generations.”
The group stated that it was on
record that the President Buhari administration had earned the least in oil
revenue-about 7 to 8 Trillion Naira-compared to the Jonathan administration
that earned a whooping 51 Trillion Naira and still left the country
pathetically under-developed.
The group also highlighted that
“the Obasanjo administration of which Atiku Abubakar was Vice President
received the total sum of 813 Million Dollars and 1.2 Trillion Naira as
recoveries from the Abacha loot. That administration cannot account for how
these money were spent. Today a vestige of the stink, plunder and immorality of
that administration, in the person of Atiku Abubakar, comes out to criticise
the Buhari administration’s well-meaning policy to plough back 300 Million
Dollars of recovered Abacha loot for the improvements in the lives of Nigeria’s
poorest people.
“It is instructive to note, in
fact, that the World Bank and the Swiss government had to make the distribution
of these funds through the Social Investment Programmes an agreed precondition
before releasing the funds. This is because of fears that the funds would end
up unaccounted for as was the case when Atiku was Vice President of the
country.
“Atiku obviously lacks a sense of
guilt or shame. Being a member of the rapacious gang that ripped off Nigeria’s
resources, sold off its assets with nothing to show for it, impoverished the
country and gave us bad leadership, it is very shameful that rather than write
a letter of apology to Nigerians for the misdeeds of he and his gang members,
he authors an article that is hypocritical, untruthful and spiteful.”
BMO emphasised that Atiku’s
article was hypocritical as it was attacking borrowing which he had suggested
as a source of funding projects in his so-called “Get Nigeria Working Again”
manifesto when he campaigned to be President.
“Hypocrisy runs through every
line in Atiku’s ill-thought and mischievous article: in his manifesto prior to
the 2019 elections, he sought to use the same means of borrowing to finance the
Budget Deficit, and to fund infrastructure in rail and roads. Today, he turns
around to criticise the Buhari government for doing this same thing, albeit
differently from his, because the Nigerian people are assured that these money
would not end up being dashed to friends or used to purchase houses in Dubai
and other places.”
The group noted that people like
Atiku are part of Nigeria’s ugly past that the country was departing from,
stating that “whenever voices from this ugly past are heard they bear only
hypocrisy, distraction, embarrassment, deceit, fallacy, desperation and in many
cases, foolishness, in fact.”
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