2019: PDP attacks Osinbajo over Jonathan

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned Vice President Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo against bandying debt figures in an attempt to cover the
failures of the All Progressives Cobgress, APC, and President
Muhammadu Buhari.

The PDP said instead of dishing out figures about the nation's debt
profile, the Vice President should present to Nigerians the scorecard
of the present administration.

In a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said it
was already a settled fact that the nation's debt profile escalated
under "the Buhari administration, which crippled our once robust
economy, pushed it into recession, turned our nation from a growing
economy to a debtor country and world's poverty capital."

The statement said, "Osinbajo is challenged to present to Nigerians,
the scorecard of APC administration, for which President Muhammadu
Buhari has now lost his carriage as a leader.

"Despite being busted, Osinbajo is labouring to deceive Nigerians by
converting domestic borrowings in Naira, under the APC, to US dollars,
so that the very high exchange rate will make it look smaller in
dollars.

"This is despite verified figures even from agencies of government
showing an accumulation of 29.6% debt under Buhari as against the
20.14% under the Yar'Adua and Jonathan administration and the 0.44 %
under the Obasanjo administration.

"Osinbajo is reminded that he is the head of Buhari's economic team
and should therefore, not in anyway, parade himself as if he has no
blame at all in the failures of this administration.

"Nigerians are no longer swayed by Osinbajo's homilies and lip service
to fiscal federalism, which he is now mouthing, just because the 2019
general election is around the corner."