PDP Tasks New Ministers On Economy

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged the newly constituted members of cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari to take the country’s economy very serious.

The country’s major opposition party made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday by its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, shortly after the President allotted portfolios to his ministers.

PDP said the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government must quickly settle down, move fast and focus on the economy.

According to the PDP, the present administration has so far played heavily on dramatizing routine procedures and processes, which was even glaring in the prolonged swearing-in ceremony of the ministers.

Metuh further said in the statement that with the inauguration, the APC administration should fully resolve the issues on the actual position of the nation’s economy and the direction therein.

“Whereas President Muhammadu Buhari had announced that the nation is bankrupt to the extent he cannot pay his ministers, his new Minister of Information had contradicted him directly by stating how the government is buoyant and ready to deploy $2.5 billion infrastructure fund, saved N1.4 trillion with another N2.5 trillion ready as special intervention fund, which goes to say that the country is not actually broke.

“These new ministers should note the challenge before them regarding the image of the country which the APC government has changed from being the ‘Heart of Africa’ and a country of ‘Good people, Great nation’ to that of ‘Corrupt people, Broke nation’.

“Furthermore, we counsel the ministers, especially those who will be the face of the government, to note that the campaigns are over. Nigerians therefore will no longer condone propaganda, lies and deceit but expect a responsible dissemination based on truth, honesty and openness,” the party said.