Posted on: 12:44 Sun, 22 Nov 2015



The Minister of National Planning in
the previous administration, Dr
Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman has
lambasted former governor of
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Prof
Charles Soludo for claiming that
former President, Goodluck Jonathan
had the worst economic management
team, saying his statement was borne
out of political desperation.

Soludo had while delivering a lecture
titled: “Can a New Buharinomics
Save Nigeria’, tried to draw
comparison between Nigeria’s eco­
nomic growth rate and other fast
developing economies like India,
China, Russia, berating the past
administration for poor
management.

He said at the event organized by
Realnews Magazine that: “Nigeria is
at war with itself, and is currently
on the ‘High Alert’ list of Failed/
Fragile States. Surprisingly, this
ignoble status of Nigeria as a ‘High
Alert’ failed state (bequeathed by
PDP) does not even feature in our
public discourse.”

Reacting the former minister’s claim
in a statement sent to Sunday Sun
that Soludo’s analysis lacked
substance since he had earlier
agreed that Nigeria became the
largest economy in Africa and 26th
in the world.

According to him, “I will rather
prefer that Ndigbo respond to him. It
was purely an ethnic/elitist issue.

Besides, if he could admit the fact
that Nigeria became the largest
economy in Africa and 26th in the
world; what other indices is he using
to measure a good manager? Soludo
is a politician and what he is doing
is pure politics; a manifestation of a
frustrated jobber.”

He went on to praise President
Jonathan for the comprehensive
blueprint on infrastructure
development which his
administration handed over to the
current government, expressing
fears, however, that there might be
policy somersault, as President
Muhammadu Buhari seems not to be
excited about implementing the
programme.

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