Atiku Mimicked Buhari’s Economic Strategy, Says Lai Mohammed

If Atiku Abubakar wins the 2023 presidential election, the Federal Government would criticise his plan for addressing insecurity.

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, discussed this during a press conference on Thursday in Abuja.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the minister was responding to Atiku, the presidential candidate for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, who just revealed his economic blueprint.

“On security, all that the leader of a party that frittered the money meant for the purchase of weapons and platforms for the military on frivolous activities could say is ‘we will take tough and difficult decisions on security matters without fear or favour.’ Really?

“While they lost confidence in our military and opted instead for mercenaries, President Buhari, who has never wavered in his belief in the capability of our fighting forces, steadily and surely re-equipped the military.

“Which today is decimating the bandits and terrorists that had held sway in some parts of the country, thus restoring security,’’ he said.

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The minister said it was surprising that what the former vice president could only reel out in his Economic Blueprint was what the Buhari government had been doing in the past seven years.

“It is a measure of how much this administration has achieved in all sectors that the best the opposition could do is to seek to copy what the administration has been doing.

“Yet, the opposition in its desperation to get power has continued to deny and derogate the administration’s achievements,’’ he said.

The minister said Buhari’s administration that engaged in massive infrastructure development in spite of paucity of resources should not be denigrated by an opposition that lacked originality.

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