Atiku challenges Buhari to explain use of N13trn borrowed

THE presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to name where he spent the sum of N13 trillion his administration borrowed in three years compared to the N6 trillion the PDP borrowed in 16 years.

The former Vice President, in a statement issued by his campaign organization in Abuja on Wednesday, alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been “very idle of late, which explains their abandonment of the vital duties of running the government in order to focus on hurling insults and false accusations” on the PDP Presidential candidate.

The statement said: “To give Nigerians the answers they want, we urge the Buhari Campaign Organisation to take the #BuhariChallenge and answer the following questions.”

The statement said: “Name one project initiated, started and completed in the last three years by the Buhari administration.

“Name one youth in President Buhari’s cabinet.

“Name one campaign promise President Buhari has kept.

“Name one Southerner heading a National Intelligence Agency under Buhari.

“Name one terrorist arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration.

“Name one Buhari government official arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration over their many budget padding scandals.

“Name one member of the Buhari administration fingered in corruption that was fired, arrested and currently facing trial.

“Name one former President or Head of State that has not been blamed by President Buhari for the precarious state of the economy he led us into.

“Name one year that Nigeria’s GDP grew faster than her population under Buhari (for 16 years of PDP administrations, Nigeria’s GDP always grew faster than population growth).

“Name the initiatives the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria being named the world headquarters for extreme poverty under Buhari.

“Name one initiative the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria having the world’s highest number of out of school children (13.2 million according to the United Nations Children Fund).

“Name the date the Ogoni cleanup will begin.

“Name what President Buhari has done with the ₦13 trillion loans he has taken in 3 years (compared to the ₦6 trillion borrowed by the PDP in 16 years).

“Name the real owners of the Ikoyi Apartment billions.”

According to the presidential flag bearer, “these are the issues the Nigerian people want to hear about, not insults from a Presidency and a party that have spent three years in office only to preside over Nigeria’s first ever recession in 25 years.”

The statement urged the Buhari administration to remember that, “it is this disinterest in real governance and focus on trivia that caused Bill Gates to look President Buhari in the eye and tell him that ‘your economic blueprint does not address Nigerians’ needs’.”

The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation posited that it runs an issue based campaign where “refined language and cerebral arguments founded on facts are used to disseminate the vision of our candidate which is why we call on the Buhari Campaign Organisation to waste no time in taking the #BuhariChallenge in clearing the air on these knotty issues bothering the minds of Nigerians.”

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Source: tribune