Past. Administration should be blame for What's happening in the country- lai Mohammad

Minister of Information Lai Mohammed has asked
Nigerians to blame the last administration for the
continued fall of the Naira and the current state
of the economy. Lai Mohammed stated this in
statement he released yeterday December 13th.
According to him, some members of the former
ruling party turned the CBN into their ATM or
piggy banks. He said if the party had won the
Presidential election, Nigerians economy would
not have survived one more month ...
“Some people still have the temerity to
insult a government that is working hard to
turn things around for the citizens, who are
bearing the brunt of such mismanagement.
It is now clear to all Nigerians that if the
PDP had won the last general elections,
Nigeria’s economy would not have survived
one more month, considering the battering
it received under the immediate past
Administration. It is therefore
unconscionable that those who should
show contrition and humility to avoid public
disgrace are the same ones pointing
accusing fingers at the Buhari
Administration.”he said
Lai Mohammed described the comments credited
to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu
which stated that ‘businesses may collapse in the
next six months because the Buhari
Administration has mismanaged the economy’ as
the clearest indication that the PDP and its
leaders are still in denial of the massive
destruction they inflicted on the Nigerian
economy. According to him, Ike Ekweremadu
(Senator) complained about the depreciation of
the naira without telling Nigerians, who
‘dollarized’ the Nigerian economy by bribing many
individuals and groups with dollars during the last
elections, thereby causing a downward drift on
the local currency.
Lai added that the Senate deputy President failed
to tell Nigerians which government presided over
the frenzied mop-up of dollars, either for ‘arms –
gate’ or for slush fund purposes from the CBN to
a point where it almost ran out of the hard
currency.
He said that though the Buhari Administration
met an economy that was in coma, it has refused
to use that as an excuse for inaction, hence has
been working hard on measures that will turn the
economy around and greatly offer relief to
Nigerians by lifting millions, not thousands of
people out of poverty through a massive social
intervention policy.
He further noted that the outcome of the months
of hard work will manifest soon in the 2016
national budget that will give succor to millions
of Nigerians, who are reeling from the fallout of
the mistake of the immediate past Administration
which has turned the country into a cash market.
He advised the leaders of PDP and members of
the immediate past Administration, who are
involved in the emerging cases of looting spree to
urgently return to government coffers, the funds
they have taken from the treasury.
”They are lucky that Nigerians are not as reckless
as they are, otherwise they would not be able to
walk around freely; not even to have the
confidence challenge the Government which
inherited their rot or the citizens suffering the
consequences. They looted the billions of naira
that were allocated for the fight against
insurgency, causing many innocent and patriotic
soldiers to die needlessly. Yet, they are not
remorseful. They looted the treasury to influence
the last elections, doling out money as if it was
going out of fashion, yet they have continued in
brag. In the latest revelation, a Minister under the
immediate past dispensation admitted to sharing
600 million naira to six Chairmen of the Contact
and Mobilization Committee of the PDP for the
last general elections, 300 million naira to an
account given by a former PDP Chairman, 200
million naira to a PDP governorship candidate and
100 million naira to a former PDP Governor. This
is just one case out of many, yet these
revelations are but a tip of the iceberg of what
Nigerians will hear in the days ahead.”he added