‘Nigerians should thank PDP for lifting them up,’ Ex-minister says

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September 14, 2016 12:06 PM

Fani Kayode made the comments after Buhari said that he didn’t inherit anything from the previous government.

Femi Fani-Kayode

Fani-Kayode also said that when former president, Goodluck Jonathan handed over to incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria had the fastest growing economy in the world.

The former minister made the comments after Buhari said that he didn’t inherit anything from the previous government.

“It is obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari has either lost his memory or he has been badly misinformed,” Fani-Kayode told Vanguard.

“If you look at the state of the country in 1999 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo took over and compare it to what it was in 2007 when he left office, you will find out that there was not just development but also a miraculous transformation in every sector; that is what Obasanjo managed to achieve and I am very proud to be part of that government and part of those legacies.

“After Obasanjo left, Umaru Yar’ Adua took over and then came former President Goodluck Jonathan. As far as I am concerned, Jonathan built on Obasanjo’s legacies and foundation and he took us to yet another level.

“If you compare Nigeria in 2015 by the time Jonathan left to 1999 before Obasanjo came in, you will have to thank the PDP for lifting this nation up and taking us from strength to strength.

“By the time Jonathan left in 2015, we had the largest economy on the African Continent and the fastest growing economy in the world, among other things. “In one year and three months, all of that have been destroyed by President Buhari and his APC, we are now back in the dark ages. Every sector in the country has been destroyed and everyone is complaining.

“President Buhari has brought nothing, but ethnic cleansing, recession, abuse of power, persecution, genocide, chaos, destruction, division, fear, deaths and shame to Nigeria and they have no other way of running the country, but to intimidate the citizens and threaten them. That is his own legacy.

“It should also be noted that a large number of people that supported Buhari in his quest to become the president, last year, were all originally from the PDP, whether the PDP governors, who decamped or PDP ministers who decamped or PDP legislators who decamped, 70 percent of people that helped to put Buhari in power used to be PDP.

“When he insults PDP legacy and said that nothing was ever done by PDP in 16 years, he is insulting those 70 per cent that put him in power starting with Obasanjo and I think that this is most unfair and very ungrateful of him," Fani-Kayode added.

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The PDP had earlier urged Buhari to stop blaming past governments for his failures but instead focus on solving Nigeria’s problems.

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