Buhari’s economic recovery plan ‘dead on arrival’ – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said if the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration intends pursing the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP as it did the anti-corruption agenda, there are fears that the plan is ‘dead on arrival’.

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TheNewsGuru.com reports that President Muhammadu Buhari launched the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan on Wednesday in Abuja.

In a statement released on Friday, spokesman of the PDP caretaker committee, Dayo Adeyeye said waiting two years into his administration before unveiling an economic plan showed the President was unprepared to rule.

“It is on record that we alerted the nation after the 2015 general election on the empty promises of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and cautioned the party to concentrate on governance,” the statement read.

“The blackmail and blame-game by the APC was, and still is a cover up for its obvious lack of plan. Instead, the APC ran our economy into recession after wasting two years witch-hunting PDP members and perceived enemies of government without paying attention to building on the robust achievements of the PDP.

“Nigerians can testify to the hardship, pains, starvation, hunger and agony inflicted on the people by the ineptitude of the APC administration.

“The recovery and growth plan is a proposal which requires implementation but we are worried because of the comments of President Muhammadu Buhari during the launch when he said, ‘I want to assure all Nigerians that we are approaching the solution to our economic challenges with the same will and commitment we have demonstrated in the fight against corruption, terrorism and militancy.

“It is therefore instructive to note that if the economic recovery plan will follow the way of the anti-corruption war so far, then, the plan document is dead on arrival.”