A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ekiti North 1 of
the Ikole/Oye Federal Constituency, Kehinde Agboola, yesterday blamed
the economic recession on what he described as “bad economic policies
the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has adopted.” He said
Nigerians are tired of the government excuses and blaming of past
governments for its inaction and bad policies that are causing hardship
in the country.
Agboola, who spoke at Ijesa-Isu Comprehensive
High School during his empowerment programme, tagged, ‘Education Support
Project,’ where he distributed past questions to final year secondary
school students and paid for free coaching for students of over 20
schools in the constituency, attributed the current hardship to the
gross failure of government and older generation to allow the younger
ones take over the baton of leadership.
“It is rather unfortunate that instead of this government to listen
to people on areas they are getting it wrong, they are blaming their
poor performance on the immediate past government.
“But Nigerians should reason better that if indeed it were the fault of former government, this challenge would have risen then.
“When Buhari came in, he was only shouting fight against
corruption and all that, but he didn’t have any economic policies to
make our economy work. He only came to haunt his perceived political
enemies, who to him are corrupt.
“In the APC government today, are there no corrupt people? We
know many people in government today who are corrupt, but the government
has not done anything to them,” he said.
On his interest in moulding the younger people, he said:
“That we have aged leaders struggling with their health to rule us today
is a clear indication that Nigerian leadership class has failed over
the time.