Let us start by clearing the air on the allegation that President
Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the APC, were not prepared for
leadership given the challenges that are currently confronting Nigerians
since he came on board and that PDP could have even done better. Your
comment, please.
Those saying that are just being mischievous. If we were not prepared
for leadership, would we have been able to free no fewer than 14 Local
Governments Areas in the North East from the hands of Boko Haram?
There are more questions to put to those who are making such malicious claim.
You need to ask them: If we were not prepared for good governance and
transparent leadership, how are we able to stabilize what could have
been a runaway economy and creating and sustaining a Treasury Single
Account, TSA, and instilling fiscal discipline that has prevented
massive looting of public funds with impunity, which was the case with
the previous government?
Yes, we were not aware of the extent of the rot in the system and
that was simply because the handover notes were not given to this
government until four days to handover. I want to remind Nigerians that
we shouted, we never sat down once with the out-gone government to work
on transition. Let me tell you that I was a member of the transition
team.
We met twice or thrice ceremonially and we never sat down to say this
is the team of the out-going government and this is the team of the
in-coming government, let’s look at power and see what has been done and
what is needed to be done when the next government comes in and so on.
We never had the opportunity to look at Nigeria’s debt or the state of
the economy they are now talking about. We were not given the
opportunity to see how much Nigeria had in the reserve and so on.
It never happened. It is like you want to buy a house and you are not
allowed to even inspect the house and you then entered the house and
found out that the whole ceiling is down. But again we have moved away
from there.
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