According to Pulse.ng
The Minister
of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the call for resignation
of President Muhammadu Buhari by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the
economy is "preposterous".
The minister
stated this on Friday in Abuja at a forum with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN).
Mohammed said
"it is very painful in a situation where the armed robber is now the one
sympathising with the victim.
"I read
in the dailies that the PDP said that the President must resign because of the
economy.
"While
we are not going to indulge in blame game, I think we should also be honest
enough to admit that we will not have been where we are today if they had done
what they ought to do.
"For the
party to ask the President to resign is just a big joke.''
The minister
said that though the government was not interested in blame game, it was
important to set the records straight.
He noted that
"agree that Nigeria is not the only country hit by the recession and crash
in price of crude, but other countries made savings.
"Saudi
Arabia today has about 600 billion dollars in reserve and this is by planning
and saving for the future which the past administration failed to do during
surplus.
"This is
not about blaming other administration, but we believe that one should be
honest when criticising.''
Mohammed then
assured that the Federal Government would do everything possible to bring the
country out of the
economic
situation.
The PDP new
Media Director, Deji Adeyanju, had in a statement in Abuja, asked the President
to resign "for destroying” the economy.
Adeyanju was
reacting to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) issued
on Wednesday which stated that Nigeria was in recession.
PDP's call for President's resignation, preposterous - Lai Mohammed
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