Atiku Abubakar, the candidate for president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is allegedly mimicking the economic strategy of the government led by President Muhammadu Buhari, according to Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture.
On Thursday, Mohammed made the assertion in conversation with newsmen at the national press center in Abuja.
He asserts that only the Federal Government is capable of comprehending the design that Atiku claims to be his own.
Atiku recently discussed his economic plan during a speech in Lagos.
Mohammed said, “Last week, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, spoke on his Economic Blueprint at an event in Lagos. Let me say, straight away, that the so-called blueprint is a crude attempt at copying all that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done, especially in the areas of job creation, infrastructure financing, relationship with the private sector, rejuvenation of the power sector, poverty reduction, debt management and the overall management of the economy.”
The minister added, “But it’s more shocking that an opposition that has condemned all that this Administration has done would turn around to weave its so-called Economic Blueprint around the same things that are currently being done by the same administration.”
“No one understands this better than this administration.”
According to him, “anyone using this as a campaign stunt, without acknowledging what we’ve done so far, is cheap and disingenuous.”
