PDP Blames Buhari for Ministers’ Absence at US Investors’ Meeting

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges President Muhammadu Buhari
to give account of his ministers and other government officials who 
abandoned their scheduled meeting with investors in the United States to 
gallivant in that country.

The ministers reportedly abandoned the foreign investors and went on 
shopping spree in highbrow shops of the United States, at the time 
Nigerians were looking up to them to negotiate deals and bring in 
investments into the country.

This embarrassing development is indeed 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 others woes plaguing our nation under President Buhari’s watch, the party said in a statement issued by it’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

It is now clear to Nigerians why the APC and its incompetent 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 leisure abroad? Painfully, 
they blame everybody but themselves for the choking economic situation 
of the country in the last three years.

PDP holds that these government officials had the temerity to pursue 
personal interests across the United State because they knew that even 
if their atrocious act were brought to the attention of Mr. President, 
he will claim that he is not aware.

This is more so as Mr. President himself brought no dividend from the 
Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM), where he de-marketed
our nation with negative utterances.

We therefore urge the National Assembly to spare no rods but to 
immediately summon the ministers named in the saga, including Dr. Audu 
Ogbeh (Agriculture), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology), Alhaji 
Lai Mohammed (Information) Babatunde Fashola (Power), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu 
(Minister of state for Petroleum Resources), Kemi Adeosun (Finance) and 
Kayode Fayemi (Solid minerals).

It is now clear to all that the APC do not have the interest of our 
country at heart and Nigerians must spare no efforts in joining forces 
with the PDP to vote them out and reinstate a purposeful and productive 
administration, come 2019.