Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has lamented that in just one
year of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Mohammadu Buhari, the
country's economy was ruined so much that States could no longer pay workers'
salaries.
He said millions of jobs were lost, prices of essential commodities
skyrocketed to
the extent that Nigerians could no longer afford common tomato to cook and the
middle class wiped away completely.
In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere
Olayinka, Governor Fayose said; "Despite President Buhari's electoral promise to
reduce petrol pump price from
the N86.50 per litre that he met it and make life more bearable for
Nigerians, he
increased the price of petrol to N145, increased electricity tariff in
spite of lack of
power supply."
He said; "Food scarcity last experienced when Buhari was military Head of State
between 1983 and 1985 has returned to the country, with Nigerians
being unable to
feed."
The governor who said Nigerians should remove party, ethnic and religious
sentiments and ask themselves what they have benefited in the last one year,
reminded Nigerians that "Foreign Reserve was $28.6 billion, Excess Crude Account
(ECA) was $2.07 billion, the dollar was
less than N200, petrol was N87 per litre and most importantly, one bag
of rice was
N8,500 and power generation was over 5,000MW when Buhari assumed office.
The statement read in part; "Today, power generation is less than 1,400, Foreign
Reserve has reduced to $26.5 billion, dollar is now over N350, petrol
has increased
to N145 per litre and one bag of rice is now over N15, 000!"
"I read the president's speech and all that I saw was a president
still sounding like
he was campaigning for votes more than one year after winning election. It is
disappointing that the President's speech was once again about promises, not
about what has been done.
"Not even a mention of one kilometre of road tarred by this administration, no
single job was created except the ones created in Central Bank of
Nigeria for their
cronnies and children, not a single megawatt of electricity generated. This is
shameful."
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