“Jonathan has done nothing to merit a second term says Lagos state Governor. Fashola made the remarks while speaking at the “Women in Business Conference,” in Lagos,
yesterday, stressing that he was convinced that Nigeria under the ruler-ship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not transforming as TAN would want Nigerians to believe through its numerous adverts. He made an example on the situation in the power sector where electricity supply has worsened under the present administration.
Similarly the governor said
unemployment in the country has been on the rise, adding that it was
unfortunate that Nigeria, a major oil exporter, was depending on importation of
all sorts of goods produced abroad to build her economy. When the price of
crude oil stood at an average of $100 per barrel for almost a decade, he said
the PDP-led Federal Government was unable to transform the country.
He therefore wondered how
the same government would manage to do better in 2015 with the price of crude
oil dropping to about $80 per barrel in recent weeks. “Where the North East is
under siege and the economy has continued to nosedive, the transformation
ambassadors have continued to distort the true information that all is well.
“All it takes to cripple our economy is for those countries we sell oil to say
they won’t buy from us any longer,” he said.
He therefore wondered how
the same government would manage to do better in 2015 with the price of crude
oil dropping to about $80 per barrel in recent weeks. “Where the North East is
under siege and the economy has continued to nosedive, the transformation
ambassadors have continued to distort the true information that all is well.
All it takes to cripple our
economy is for those countries we sell oil to say they won’t buy from us any
longer,” he said. He pointed at the recent examples where Nigeria was denied
access to arms, saying this was exactly the situation the country has found
itself regarding importation of other goods, including refined petroleum
products.
In 2010 alone, he said
Nigeria spent N2.5trillion importing petroleum products into this country,
despite the existence of four refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna. At
the moment, the governor said the country has less money to continue the
importation, pointing out that if the country could not pay for fuel
importation, the implications were clear to all Nigerians. He predicted that in no distant future, the
dreaded long fuel queues would return with its dislocating consequences to the
economy.
The government is yet to
give us power as promised, they are yet to give us fuel, We are yet to see the
standard highways they promised. There are so many Nigerians living without
electricity. “Within their transformation period, thousands of people in the
North East have been killed, while thousands have turned into refugee in their
fatherland, Over 200 girls are still in captivity of insurgents and the North
East is still under siege. With all these, the transformation ambassadors are
telling Nigerians that all is well,” he concluded.
i AM WITH fASHOLA ON THIS, IS HE COMING TO CAUSE MORE HAVOC.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the situation of the country Jonathan should not even be contesting, he failed the country
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