According to report reaching oyogist.com, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the last election, has given his major reason Nigeria slided into another recession.
Atiku said he received the confirmation of another recession, the second time in five years, with a heavy heart.
Atiku said in a statement he shared on Twitter on Sunday morning.
He said “Because this could have been avoided had this administration taken heed to patriotic counsel given by myself and other well meaning Nigerians on cutting the cost of governance, saving for a rainy day, and avoiding profligate borrowing,”
“I urge the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to swallow its pride, and accept its limitations, so that they can open their minds to ideas, without caring who the messenger is.