At various occasions since coming to power on May 29, 2015, both
President Muhammadu Buhari and his lying parrot, Lai Mohammed, have
attempted to sell the false narrative that the Jonathan administration
and the Peoples Democratic Party, destroyed Nigeria’s economy and handed
over a collapsed polity and are the reason for the current comatose
condition of the nation’s fiscal and financial systems.
For instance, on the 14th of August, 2017, President Buhari, speaking through his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said:
“With due respects to the former President Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan, these are the facts about the economy you left behind, in case
you have forgotten.
I hope this will help to erase the wrong statement credited to
you at your party, the PDP Convention at the Eagle Square last weekend
that you handed to President Buhari a robustly healthy economy.
“Let me start by reasserting an obvious statement, which is
that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was handed an economy
ravaged by years of mismanagement and corruption.”
Again, lying Lai Mohammed had also as recently as the 26th of
January 2018, in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, said as follows:
“I think it will be tragedy for this country for PDP to come
back because they have not even apologised to the nation for how they
had destroyed our economy, destroyed our infrastructure, destroyed our
quality, and so far from their campaign, ask them how they will do it
better when they get there.”
However, in keeping with the principle that no matter how far and
fast falsehood has traveled, it must eventually be overtaken by truth,
Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has
exposed both his boss, President Buhari, and his colleague, Lying Lai
Mohammed, as liars who will say anything, no matter how untrue, to cling
to power and demonize former President Jonathan and the PDP.
Speaking on February 1, 2018 at a civil society engagement workshop
on the Power Sector Recovery Programme in Abuja, Fashola in trying to
defend himself from allegations of ineptitude as regards the epileptic
power supply in the country, ended up vindicating both Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan and the PDP, albeit unintentionally.
At that event, Mr. Fashola said:
“We hear all our so-called experts who say (non-availability
of) power is why the economy of Nigeria is not growing. That is not
factual and it is not correct. At the time when we had less power in
2013 and 2014, the economy of this country was growing at seven per cent
per annum.
We had less power then than we have now, but the economy was growing.”
Nigerians can now see that Mr. Fashola, in a Freudian slip, was
made by God, to expose the truth that his boss, his party and his
colleagues have been trying to suppress for the past three years, namely
that former President Jonathan developed and grew Nigeria’s economy at
an unprecedented and consistent growth rate of over 6% per annum and
handed over a thriving economy that was projected by CNNMoney to be the
third fastest growing economy in the world when Dr. Jonathan handed over
power to President Buhari.
Unfortunately, due to the ineptitude of the Buhari administration, a
booming economy became an economy in recession in just one year under
the All Progressive Congress.
And this is not the only recent example of the vindication of former President Jonathan by the Buhari administration.
Only recently, lying Lai Mohammed responded to the letter by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo by claiming that the Buhari administration
had increased the nation’s foreign reserve from the $24 billion it met
it to $40 billion.
The question for Lai Mohammed is this: From who did Buhari inherit the $24 billion? From ghosts? From Killer Fulani herdsmen?
In light of the vindicating statements by Raji Fashola, I hereby
call on both President Muhammadu Buhari and lying Lai Mohammed to tender
an unreserved apology to former President Jonathan sad the PDP and to
henceforth commit to returning Nigeria’s economy at least to the state
that they met it when Dr. Jonathan handed over power to them on May 28,
2015.
Reno Omokri
Number One bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and the Conspiracies
For Former President Goodluck Jonathan.