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Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
Buhari Might Be Happy, Laughing Now
Nigeria’s economic situation continues to worsen which has made many veterans from various sections of the country claim that this is a worst regime in the history of the country.
Expressing his own view, Dr. Reuben Abati, a renowned journalist and former Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, disclosed that the immediate-past president could be all-smile considering the present economic woe of the country.
He said Muhammned Buhari would be somewhere in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State, laughing at the present economic situation of the country, justifying own administration.
Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
Abati noted that it was a total shade on southwest people who are believed to be competent propelling the economy due to their higher level of education and economy knowhow.
On Monday, Abati, who happens to be the lead anchor of “Morning Show”, a popular morning programme on Arise TV, asserted that it is a “total embarrassment on the people of southwest” and claimed that the hope of survival hangs in the balance due to the unbearable hardship caused by the anti-human policies of the present administration.
Abati said: “Nigerians have now been thrown into energy poverty. We now find ourselves unfortunately in a situation whereby President Muhammadu Buhari, now in his Daura village in Katsina, will be laughing.
“He will say, ‘okay. I think this Yoruba people they say they know the economy. Okay, the economy is now in their hands. They have, they have taken it down. They have mismanaged it. Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
– Renowned Journalist and Former Senior Adviser On Media And Publicity
“So this is what we are facing. It’s a gross embarrassment in terms of economic management to people who come from the Southwest, who say that, you know, ‘people from the Southwest are better at managing the economy’. We have not seen that evidence.
“Schools have increased school fees. Do you know that a stick of Suya is now N1850? We can’t even eat Suya again. All within a space of one or two weeks. Nigerians are growing tired. Look at Lagos that is supposed to be the business capital of Nigeria, it is a ghost town.
“How many vehicles do you see on the road now? People are rationalising their lifestyle. Lifestyle is affected, families are affected.
“You know husbands now are beginning to go to the market to make sure that madams do not top up ‘chop’ money in the family because of what has been imposed.
“A litre of fuel is going up to about N1200 to N1250 in some places. They are asking us to make sacrifices and they are not making sacrifices.
“In a country where there is insecurity. And on top of it all, the Dangote Refinery and the NNPCL over the weekend, there is this back and forth about the pricing.
“So in the midst of all this confusion we are in a quadrum. Our immediate future hangs in the balance. And the pain is much. It has gone beyond hunger.
“Life is very difficult. And those who claim, who promised that there will be renewed hope, they should not allow that hope to disappear completely.
“Some people have served notice that they will go on strike. They will go out to the street on October 1 driven by the pain of hunger and the reality of anger. The problem is preventable,” he concluded.
Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
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#EndBadGovernance Protest: We Know Those Behind it
Member of the opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), have revealed that they know the “brain” behind the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest which threw the country into panic mode between 1st and 1oth of August, 2024.
During the 10-day nationwide protest, Nigerians, in multitude, took to the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction at the ongoing hardship and hunger ravaging the country.
Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
The protest is said to have claimed more than forty lives with private and public facilities looted and burned. In the aftermath of the gory experience, the members of the opposition party, the PDP, have publicly stated that they know those behind the destructive demonstration which almost swept the nation of the earth.
On Monday, while addressing the press at the party’s (PDP’s) headquarters in Abuja, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said “hunger” was the main sponsor of the ten-day protest and took no much time in urging the Federal Government to be proactive in dealing with the hardship presenting rocking the country by “arresting hunger, not the hungry.”
Ologunagba, the PDP Spokesman said: “There is need for caution. There was a protest in this country, the government did not do anything. You arrest some people and said they were terrorists and you charge them to court. You say some people were the sponsors of the protest.
“We know those who sponsored the protest. The sponsor is hunger. The President and his people should arrest hunger and there will be no problem. Let your policies that are draconian, that are bringing people to their knees. This is the season schools are resuming, we know what people are going through.”
The dog destined to be lost, will never heed the Hunter’s whistle. This administration is a lost course.
Nigeria’s Economy: Worse Than Previous Administration – Abati
