The People’s Democratic Party has laid the ‘misconduct’ of Nigeria’s ministers who failed to show up at strategic meetings in Washington DC in the United States, firmly at the feet of Buhari.
The meetings were supposed to be of interest for Nigeria’s economy and had the capabilities of bringing in new investors, but Nigerian ministers were curiously absent and the PDP opined that they were instead galivanting in the United States.
The PDP made these allegations in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologondiyan and asked Buhari to “give an account of his ministers and other government officials who abandoned the meeting.”
According to Daily Trust, officials who were billed to have sessions at the programme but were absent include the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu; Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh; Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu; Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi; and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah.
The PDP are of the opinion APC are out to embarrass the country and that this just shows “a clear reflection of the recklessness and laissez-faire attitude of the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration towards governance, resulting in the biting economic recession and other woes plaguing our nation under President Buhari’s watch”.
“It is now clear to Nigerians why the APC and the federal government have not been able to attract any meaningful Foreign Direct Investment to the country in the last three years of President Buhari’s administration. Instead, the ones it inherited are pulling out.
“How can APC government officials sent to attend investors’ meetings abandon their duties and engage in personal abroad? Painfully, they blame everybody but themselves for the choking economic situation of the country in the last three years.”