The Presidency has said Atiku Abubakar, former presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was part of the rot Nigeria has
become.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity, Femi Adesina said Atiku cannot “exculpate” himself from the rot in
Nigeria.
Adesina was reacting to Atiku’s remark on the Bloomberg
report that Nigeria may become the country with the highest unemployment rate
in the world.
The former Vice President had called on relevant stakeholders to help Buhari’s administration to resolve the unemployment rate in Nigeria.
Atiku had said the involvement of stakeholders in the
country’s unemployment crisis would help save the masses.
However, Adesina stressed that the figures recently released
by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on unemployment was not new.
Appearing on Channels Television programme, Adesina wondered
what Atiku and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo did to improve the country
when in power.
He said: “You will recall that in the build-up to the 2015
elections, when the APC (All Progressives Congress) was campaigning, the figure
that was used by then candidate Buhari was that a minimum of 30 million
Nigerians were unemployed, particularly youths, and that his government was
going to do something about it.
“That was in 2014/2015.
“So, don’t make it appear like a genie that just came out of
the bottle.
“No, it had always been there.
“It had always been there.
“The former Vice-President was in power for eight years.
“Now, he is in the opposition.
“You can’t take whatever he says as the gospel.
“The question is when former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar
was in government with President Olusegun Obasanjo, where did they take the
country?
“Where did they leave the country?
“The former Vice-President is part of the rot this country
became.
“He cannot exculpate himself.”
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