By Dwelleth Morountodun
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, said it expected a terrible job report, particularly with the comment on live television
from the President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, that President Muhammadu BBUHARI had ordered the Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale, to fudge the latest job reports.
Mr. Paul Ibe, the Media Aide to the party’s flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said the job report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday is catastrophic.
According to him, the disclosure shows that under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, a whopping 20.93 million Nigerians have lost their jobs.
Nigeria, according to him, cannot continue like this, especially with an administration that continues to blame others for things that they should find solutions for with the latest ridiculous episode being Buhari’s blaming of former President Good luck Jonathan for his own inability to appoint ministers for 6 months, an action that is directly responsible for the sorry state of unemployment in Nigeria.
He said: “We urge Nigerians to note that a President who can’t create jobs or wealth in his own private business cannot create jobs or wealth for the public because you cannot give what you do not have.
“Right now, Nigeria is the world headquarters of extreme poverty and our main challenge is jobs. Atiku Abubakar is an expert at job and wealth creation having created 50,000 jobs in his own private capacity.”
Whatever is entrusted into the hands of Waziri Atiku Abubakar blooms. This is a man who will never have 150 cattle year in and year out. This is a man who will never blame others and will always accept responsibility for changing things. Nigeria needs jobs and Atiku means JOBS, he added.
The Spokesperson commended Kale, for having the courage to stand up by releasing the inconvenient truth about the state of unemployment in Nigeria