President Muhammadu Buhari has replied a statement by the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the president is
‘demarketing’ Nigeria. The PDP, in a statement by its spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, on Sunday
said Mr. Buhari was by his various statements making Nigeria
unattractive to investors.
“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 labelling of
Nigerians and unwarranted unhealthy portrayal of the nation’s economy,”
Mr. Metuh said.
In its reaction, the president in a statement by his spokesperson,
Femi Adesina, said Mr. Buhari will always tell Nigerians the truth.
Read the presidency’s statement below.
Our attention has been drawn to the latest statement by the PDP
spokesman, Olisa Metuh, alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari is
“demarketing Nigeria”.
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.
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.
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 persists in a vain attempt to remain relevant on the
national stage by unjustly denigrating the President who continues 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 are 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.
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