The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the National Assembly to summon President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet ministers who it alleged abandoned their scheduled meeting with investors in the United States for a shopping spree.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the Ministers of Information Lai Mohammed; Dr Audu Ogbeh (agriculture); Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (science and technology); Babatunde Fashola (power) were involved.
Others named in the statement are, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu (petroleum resources for state); Kemi Adeosun (finance) and Kayode Fayemi (solid minerals) were involved.
The party said, “the ministers reportedly abandoned the foreign investors and went on shopping spree in highbrow shops of the United States, at the time Nigerians were looking up to them to negotiate deals and bring in investments into the country.”
It added, “It is now clear to Nigerians why the APC and its incompetent federal government have not been able to attract any meaningful Foreign Direct Investment to the country in the last three years of President Buhari’s administration. Instead, the ones it inherited are pulling out.
“How can APC government officials sent to attend investors’ meetings abandon their duties and engage in personal leisure abroad? Painfully, they blame everybody but not themselves for the choking economic situation of the country in the last three years.
“PDP holds that these government officials had the temerity to pursue personal interests across the United State because they knew that even if their atrocious act were brought to the attention of Mr. President, he will claim that he is not aware.
“We therefore urge the National Assembly to spare no rods but to immediately summon the ministers named in the saga. It is now clear to all that the APC do not have the interest of our country at heart and Nigerians must spare no efforts in joining forces with the PDP to vote them out and reinstate a purposeful and productive administration, come 2019.”
