By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians the absence of his ministers and other officials at the meeting with investors in the United States even though they were in U.S.
PDP, via Kola Ologbondiyan, its national publicity secretary, alleged that the ministers abandoned the foreign investors and went on shopping spree in highbrow shops of the United States, at the time Nigerians were looking up to them to negotiate deals and bring in investments into the country.
While condemning the abandonment of the U.S. meeting by the Federal Government officials, PDP stated that the embarrassing development was indeed a clear reflection of the recklessness and laissez-faire attitude of the Buhari-led All
Progressives Congress (APC) administration towards governance, resulting in the biting economic recession and other woes plaguing the nation under President Buhari’s watch.
“It is now clear to Nigerians why the APC and its incompetent Federal Government have not been able to attract any meaningful Foreign Direct Investment to the country in the last three years of President Buhari’s administration. Instead, the ones it inherited are pulling out.
How can APC government officials sent to attend investors’ meetings abandon their duties and engage in personal leisure abroad? Painfully, they blame everybody but themselves for the choking economic situation of the country in the last three years,” it stated.
It further stated that the government officials had the temerity to pursue personal interests across the United State because they knew that even if their atrocious acts were brought to the attention of Mr. President, he would claim that he was not aware.
“This is more so as Mr. President himself brought no dividend from the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM), where he de-marketed our nation with negative utterances.
“We therefore urge the National Assembly to spare no rods but to immediately summon the ministers named in the saga, including Dr. Audu Ogbeh (Agriculture), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology), Alhaji Lai Mohammed (Information); Babatunde Fashola (Power), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu (Minister of state for Petroleum Resources), Kemi Adeosun (Finance) and Kayode Fayemi (Solid minerals).
“It is now clear to all that the APC does not have the interest of our country at heart and Nigerians must spare no efforts in joining forces with the PDP to vote them out and reinstate a purposeful and productive administration, come 2019,” it stated.
It would be recalled that the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi II, who attended the U.S. meeting decried the absence of of Federal Government officials at the event,which would have been used to showcase the potential of Nigeria’s economy to foreign investors.