Stop making comments on economy, APC tells PDP

The National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, has advised the opposition Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) to stop making comments on the current state of the nation’s economy.

Abdullahi gave the advice in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, while speaking with journalists shortly after hosting a Sallah get-together luncheon with some Kwarans.

He advised the PDP to allow the APC government tackle the economic difficulties that the PDP government has inflicted on the people of the country.

He said, “If you create a problem and other people are trying to solve it, the least you could do is to, at least, keep quiet, not continue to lay claim to any superiority.

“If you recall even before the last administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria has started borrowing money to pay salaries. And so many people, including former CBN Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, our own Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, warned at a time that whoever takes over from Jonathan is going to face a very tough time running the economy. It wasn’t the APC that created the situation.

“So, the APC inherited a situation and tried to make the best of what we have found. Then, you also have to ask yourself, the kind of revelation that is coming forward. The EFCC has reported how much money it has recovered in loots.

“Then, you ask yourself how did it happen? How did it happen that so much money can be stolen from the system? Those things must have implication for the economy. If an individual is said to forfeit permanently amount to the tune to £17 millon; the kind of figures we are hearing is even difficult to wrap your mind around it….

“If the APC destroyed the economy by doing what we are doing, what did PDP do by allowing the kind of mind boggling stealing that happened in the last two years, repair the economy?”