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Opposition accuses President of ‘demarketing’ Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday knocked the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration for wrecking the economy for “personal gain”.

He repudiated the party’s claim that he is “demarketing” Nigeria with his public speeches on corruption by former public officials, saying he won’t lie to cover up the truth.

“Nigerians will hear only the truth on the economy and the state of the nation from President Muhammadu Buhari”, the Presidency said last night.

It alleged that the Jonathan-led PDP government lied to Nigerians on the state of the economy which was found to be in dire straits contrary to that government’s claims.



“President Buhari will remain true to the virtues of honesty, integrity, sincerity, incorruptibility and plain-speaking which endeared him to Nigerians and made them prefer his leadership to that of a lying and deceptive PDP administration.

“The President will not, in the guise of ‘marketing’ the country, refrain from telling Nigerians and the world, the emerging truths about the abject state in which years of plundering by a PDP leadership has left the Nigerian treasury and economy.

“President Buhari will not in the name of ‘marketing’ or ‘attracting’ investors, follow in the footsteps of the ousted PDP Administration and its discredited officials who shamelessly lied to Nigerians and the world about the buoyancy and vibrancy of an economy they had bled dry for personal gain, when it was very obvious to the discerning, that the Nigerian economy was headed for serious trouble,” Presidential Spokesman Femi Adesina, said in a statement.

The Presidency condemned PDP spokesman Olisa Metuh’s statement that the President has been “demarketing Nigeria “with his public stance on corruption.

“We restate for the umpteenth time to Mr. Metuh and his ilk that their attempts to distract President Buhari from the job he has been elected to do will fail,” the Presidency said, adding: “It is most unfortunate that instead of showing some remorsefulness for the harm done to the nation by his party, and giving genuine support for President Buhari’s efforts to salvage and revamp the national economy, Mr. Metuh persisted in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continued to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to the nation by PDP misrule and corruption.”

Mr. Metuh’s antics, the statement said, were futile.

“President Buhari cannot be distracted by a broken record. If the PDP spokesman ever has serious matters to bring to our attention, we will be prepared to listen,” it stated

In his party’s statement Metuh claimed that recent statements on the state of the economy credited to President Buhari were capable of harming Nigeria’s image.

PDP observed that instead of making efforts to harness resources and grow the economy, Buhari has continued to scare away investors.

According to the opposition, the President has continued to apply himself perhaps unwittingly, to demarketing the nation through negative labelling of Nigerians and unwarranted unhealthy portrayal of the economy.

The party added that the President’s “unwary statements” have become very serious clogs in the wheel of progress, eroding the confidence of both domestic and international investors in Nigeria’s socio-economic system.

The statement reads: “It is worrisome that in the last six months, the President, instead of making efforts to harness resources and grow the economy, has rather continued to apply himself, perhaps unwittingly, to demarketing the nation and scaring away investors through negative labeling of Nigerians and unwarranted unhealthy portrayal of the nation’s economy.

“In the last six months, our President has only succeeded in discouraging foreign investors with his continued misrepresentation of our country as a business unfriendly environment, where most of the citizens are basically corrupt, dishonest, and cannot be trusted.

“Whereas we have restated our total support for the war against corruption, we insist that Mr. President’s unceasing blanket negative labelling of citizens, in a country where millions of honest and hardworking individuals/firms are genuinely contributing daily to the development effort, is indeed a disservice and injurious to the nation and the people.

“Furthermore, Mr. President’s recent announcement to the world that the nation, with its abundant human and natural resources, is broke and cannot pay cabinet ministers not only sends a discouraging signal to the domestic and international business community, but also exposes the ineptitude of the present administration to meaningfully and sincerely exert itself and work with industrious and innovative investors to create and manage wealth.

“We ask; how can any reasonable investor still have the confidence to invest in a country where the President himself continues to alert that his country reeks of corrupt people and that the government is broke to the extent it cannot pay cabinet ministers?

“Is the President not directly advising investors against having confidence in Nigeria and the system, and that they risk not being paid for jobs awarded by government at any level?”

Source www.thenationonline./news

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Why you continued ruining it is what I don't know, is it for almajiri gain! Abi for body language gain..... Kikiki.... Abeg!

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buhari is working,the fools are ranting,

This man has been complaining from the first moment he was elected and till now complain is in the first page in his dictionary, I think he is clueless. Well, I thought he used to be a cattle rearer, so what do I expect anyway? By their job, we shall know them.

You told us these during your campaign!



Only a bad workman complains of his tools.


Buhari get to work and fix Nigeria!




Calling other fellow countrymen and women
'thieves' is the highest sense of senselessness
ever
exhibited by any leader that I know. The
international community will never be that foolish
to come and invest money in a country where the
president have gone to them and publicly called
his
people 'thieves'.
So if DFI comes into the country who will manage
it?
The 'thieves'? I am waiting to see which serious
investment will come to us.
Let us just use the 'thieves' we have in our books
and invest in some relevant sectors of the
economy
and move on, and then learn not to call our own
'thieves' before the international community
again.
The quantum of problems in Nigeria don't even
call
for a foreign trip to seek for assistance from the
international community, we should start by
looking for solutions from within before going out
to seek for help. The way we lay the foundations
of
the solutions will automatically drag the foreign
investors to us and we will dictate the pace to
them
because the ground will be fertile to do business
in
our country. It's our credible policies that will
bring us foreign partners to invest and not going
to tell
them PDP is no more in power and Nigeria is
changing for good with just mouth.
How can a foreign partner come to your country
when you don't have stable and credible
economic
policies in line with the international standard?
How can a foreign partner come to your country
when
he is not assured of his security and that of his
funds? How can a foreign partner come to your
country when the dons of the ruling party are
calling other fellow citizens 'thieves'? How can a
foreign partner come to your country when you
travel outside your country and ask for more time
to get things in place? How? How? And How?
From May 29th to date, we don't have a serious
cabinet in place and the screening of nominees
was
marred with so much controversy.
Well time is running out and I hope they notice
quickly and start utilizing the remaining time they
have left before 2019. . . ~ culled from Benjamin
Amaechi's Facebook Wall.

We voted in the wrong person. Buhari is too old for this job. Lord have mercy on
Nigeria. I think he should resign and hand over to his vice who is younger and understand what it takes to run a government. instead of buhari destroying what he claims to be building.

Baba, we know. Thatz why we voted for you. Appoint ministers, make wailers stop dey wail for here jarey.

I swear this man is confused

Buhari actually believes Nigerians are zombies

Who is more PDP than Obj, Amaechi, Ngige, Saraki, Atiku and his long list of criminal confidants?

The PDP that wrecked Nigeria are still in Asorock under this govt. Buhari has run out of excuse on the fast deteriorating state of Nigeria.

He personally supervises NNPC yet we lost 120billion in 3 months

I just hope who ever takes over from this administration will not come up with same story. Seems our leaders don't really care about us.

Keep giving excuses... GEJ fought the Boko Haram your people sponsored without making references to your promise of making the country ungovernable. So kindly shut up and work.

Buhari's only achievement in six months is criticising Jonathan!! When will the man commence work

Baba no be everybody you go dey reply na. U no dey see seun? Mad men deserves silent treatment

Noise maker

BreezyCB:
Noise maker

Better noise maker!

Flets:
Buhari actually believes Nigerians are zombies

Who is more PDP than Obj, Amaechi, Ngige, Saraki, Atiku and his long list of criminal confidants?

The PDP that wrecked Nigeria are still in Asorock under this govt. Buhari has run out of excuse on the fast deteriorating state of Nigeria.

He personally supervises NNPC yet we lost 120billion in 3 months

Couldn't have. said it better.

I am ashamed of this PDP if they are not ashame of
themselves. It is disheartening that even the followers of
this dead party won't see what advice their party is giving
the President. That the President should lie to cover all ur
evil deeds that has crippled the economy of this Nation
over the years?

The economy was so harsh on Nigerians and everybody
could see and feel it, yet the dead PDP keep lying to us
that we are the biggest economy in Africa. Same thing
they want PMB to be doing.
May God not forgive PDP! May PDP dry bones never rise
again!

This Metuh is really a dull student of Lai.

Please someone should remind this man that campaign is over hence,the blame game is over. He was already in the known before contesting and he boosted to have the solution to our problem. Now he has resorted to quarreling with his tools.

A bad work man they say quarrel with his tools, lol.

Can't still come to terms that after 6 months Buhari is still playing the blame game. Perhaps, there is a need to remind him that he promised to make the dollar equivalent to the naira i.e 1#=1$. He shouldn't forget also that he was overwhelmingly voted into office to correct whatever anomalies herein. Mr. President, don't start singing a new song now you have the presidency else you'll always be shy of us because we'll pelt you with whatever we find handy.

If I don dey see my 3 square meal chop per day, wetin concern me with bad economy?

We all know that PDP ruined the economy and anybody trying to deny is only being clever by half! But if am feeling headache and goes to the doctor and the doctor keeps telling me that am feeling headache, I won't happy with him cause I know my problem that's why I came to him for solutions!
*my point*
APC should please shut up and work!!!!

We know that is why you were voted in so stop ranting or better still if PDP have ruined everything according to you RESIGN.QED!

Buhari's foolish supporters don't care! Even if Buhari says in Germany that all Nigerians are mad, they will still applaud him!

Ok next

Many Americans believe that Bush is a war criminal. Has the mainstream media in America called him such not to talk of Obama in as much as they're in different party?

APC children receive sense abeg!

ok

Oga Presido we already know thats why we voted you in to make the necessary changes.No time for recitation of problems get down to work.

sunny12345679:
We voted in the wrong person. Buhari is too old for this job. Lord have mercy on
Nigeria. I think he should resign and hand over to his vice who is younger and understand what it takes to run a government. instead of buhari destroying what he claims to be building.

we have alot of foolish posters in d house, u are still not tired of ur clueless corrupt hero that enslave u and ur entire family for his personal gain, beside, senate has just confirm d ministerial nominees, and 2015 budget cannot be use to perform d miracle and d change we promise.

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Dannyset:
I am ashamed of this PDP if they are not ashame of
themselves. It is disheartening that even the followers of
this dead party won't see what advice their party is giving
the President. That the President should lie to cover all ur
evil deeds that has crippled the economy of this Nation
over the years?

The economy was so harsh on Nigerians and everybody
could see and feel it, yet the dead PDP keep lying to us
that we are the biggest economy in Africa. Same thing
they want PMB to be doing.
May God not forgive PDP! May PDP dry bones never rise
again!

This Metuh is really a dull student of Lai.

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