Lai Muhammed. |
The attention of the Atiku Presidential Campaign
Organisation has been drawn to a sponsored news story on Vanguard newspapers
of Saturday October 20, 2018, with the headline ‘2019: International media
query emergence of Atiku over suspicious source of wealth’.
In the said report, not one
international media was quoted. Rather, it was the notoriously dishonest All
Progressives Congress minister of information, Lai Mohammed, who was quoted
alleging that that was what the international media told him.
Quoting the said story, Vanguard reported
as follows:
“The minister said: “One curious
issue that kept occurring was that anytime I spoke about how we have waged war
against corruption, the journalists kept asking me a question. “They asked me:
How can you claim to have succeeded in waging war against corruption, when one
of the major contestants in the 2019 general elections is actually a man with
stupendous wealth but cannot explain the source of his wealth?”
How anyone would take the word of
a confirmed liar, as Lai Mohammed, for the Gospel truth is beyond us.
To show you how unreliable Lai
Mohammed is, at the lecture in the Royal Institute for International Affairs
(Chatham House) with the topic, “Nigeria’s National Unity: Towards
Participation and Shared Values”, which was his main reason for going to
London, Lai Mohammed said: “we do not need to do anything extra because we have
delivered on all our promises and Nigerians are quite happy and satisfied with
the government”.
How the minister of information
of a government that has turned Nigeria into the world headquarters for extreme
poverty can say that is beyond imagination. Is Mr. Mohammed claiming that his
party promised and delivered poverty and Nigerians are satisfied with this
world record poverty?
If Lai Mohammed can lie openly at
Chatham House in front of the international press and diplomatic corps, is it a
big thing for him to lie about his accounts with the international media?
The true position of things is
that ever since the emergence of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, as the
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party after the elective congress of the
party on October 6-7, the international media has been agog with praise for Mr.
Abubakar and hope for a new dawn in Nigeria.
Reuters praised Atiku as having “long enjoyed support from
the business elite in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos for his
conservative-capitalist ideals”. They went on to further give him kudos for his
record in office by saying “as vice president in a PDP administration from
1999-2007, (he) implemented a programme of liberalisation in areas including
the telecoms sector.”
The number one policy magazine in
the world, The Economist, described His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar,
“as a business-friendly candidate who will get Nigeria’s economy going.”
Not one single international
paper, magazine, TV station or website has had anything negative to say about
the Waziri Adamawa’s emergence. That lie only exists in the fallacious
imagination of Lai Mohammed.
On the contrary, international
media and even reputable global financial institutions have predicted doom for
Nigeria should Muhammadu Buhari be re-elected.
According to one of the world’s
largest banks, HSBC, “a second term for Mr Buhari however raises the risk of
limited economic progress and further fiscal deterioration, prolonging the
stagnation of his first term, particularly if there is no move towards
completing reform of the exchange rate system or fiscal adjustments that
diversify government revenues away from oil.”
On its own part, The
Economist wrote off the Buhari administration as a failure, saying
“The 2019 elections will be a close contest between the ruling APC and the PDP.
We expect the PDP presidential candidate to win.”
Nigerians can no longer be
hoodwinked by the Orwellian propaganda that is the signature of this
administration.
The 2019 presidential election
will be determined by Nigerian voters and not by political soothsayers.
Nigerians will make a determination whether to settle for incompetence versus
competence; cluelessness versus knowhow; joblessness versus employment;
restiveness versus engagement; divisiveness versus unity; nepotism versus merit
and bigotry versus inclusiveness.
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