The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, of copying the economic blueprint of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.
Mohammed made this revelation at the national press centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Thursday while speaking with journalists.
He said nobody apart from the federal government has mastery of the economic blueprint which Atiku claims ownership of.
The former vice president of Nigeria recently commented on his economic blueprint at an event in Lagos.
The minister 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 further added that, “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.”
He said, “anyone using this as a campaign stunt, without acknowledging what we’ve done so far, is cheap and disingenuous.”