Nigerians are presently taking a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari, over the present economic woes his government has bedeviled the Nation, amidst controversies over the £860 million Britain foreign aid alleged to have been diverted.
One of such is the renowned economist and founder of Lagos Business School, Professor Pat Utomi, who recently took Buhari to the cleaners.
Utomi speaking during the lecture organized by the School of Media and Communications, recently tagged, “Economic Survival in a Period of Dwindling Oil Prices” said, Buhari and his men who occupy the political class are lazy and interested in filling their pockets at the detriment of the people they were meant to serve.
He attributed the present fuel queues, hardship and increase in electricity tariff on the people, to the lack of vision by leaders at the helm of affairs.
He lamented that Buhari’s economic policies were flawed with no clear cut blueprint for national development and growth.
Utomi said, “Nigeria has a lazy political class that is not visionary enough to see the need to reposition the country in the right policies that will shore up growth and stability in our economy without the sense of playing selfish and dancing to personal gains and self-aggrandizement”.
He added, that corruption has created an avenue for people with money without the thought or foresight to create jobs for its citizens, even as he insisted that the government of the day is more responsible for the rot in the country’s economy than moving it forward.
According to Utomi, Buhari’s policies tend more to aborting national progress than enhancing the overall development of the entire country.
The accusation is coming at a time the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, decided to take his campaign against Buhari to the diplomatic level.
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