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Lai Mohammed Slams PDP, Says Buhari Government Has Lots To Campaign With

I Wonder If We Live In The Same Country When I Read What The Media Writes About Nigeria - Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has slammed the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the mockery of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Naija News reports that the minister, who faulted the PDP’s comment that the APC can’t campaign with President Buhari’s achievements said the Naira exchange rate and inflation were insufficient indices to write off Buhari’s performance.

According to him, it is a cruel irony that the main opposition party, who couldn’t complete a single modern rail line, can describe the Buhari government as a failure.

Mohammed, at the second edition of “PMB administration scorecard” in Abuja, said “I want to address what I will call an absurdity that is being bandied about by the opposition, that the Buhari administration has nothing to campaign within the run-up to the 2023 general elections.

” It’s a cruel irony that the party that presided over the affairs of this great country in a time of plenty but could not complete a single modern rail line, is the one accusing an administration that has completed at least three standard gauge rail lines of lacking in achievements.

“They are quick to point to some economic indices like the Naira exchange rate and inflation, but the truth is that if they were the ones confronted with having to fight a once-in-a-century pandemic, two economic recessions and low oil prices, Nigeria would have had no economy to even talk about!”

The minister, who boasted about the achievements of the Buhari administration wondered how a government can fight a once-in-a-century pandemic, two economic recessions, and low oil prices, and not have any achievements to campaign about.

While he continued to list the government’s achievements, he pointed out that “Indeed, the Buhari Administration is spoilt for choice in celebrating its achievements.

“As I said, we have completed the Abuja-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri Standard Gauge Rail-lines, we have commissioned brand new airport terminals in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, we have completed housing projects in 35 states, we have constructed or are constructing road projects in every state, we have the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme that has almost weaned us from dependence on imported rice and other crops.

“We met 15 standard rice mills and now we have over 50.

” We have our unprecedented NationalSocial Investment Programme under which 9.8 million school children are fed one meal daily, under which one million youths have been empowered.

“Another 500,000 who are undergoing training under the N-Power and the 1,632,480 households that have been enrolled in the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, and we are proud of the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure (also known as Deep Blue Asset), aimed at managing, controlling and protecting Nigerian waterways towards the advancement of coastal prosperity,” the minister submitted.

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