The Presidency's statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on media to President Muhammad Buhari, has only exposed why Nigeria is in an economic recession and is floundering in all spheres.

It is quite sad that Malam Garba Shehu does not know that oil constitutes only 15% of Nigeria's GDP and thus a fall in the price of oil should not lead to a collapse of the Nigerian economy as has been experienced under President Buhari.

If Garba and his boss are willing to learn, the Jonathan Foundation and the Peoples Democratic Party can arrange a course for them to be tutored on the subject-how to grow your economy to be the largest in Africa. We make bold that we are experienced in that area.

When Mr. Shehu says "There is nothing to show for the revenues earned, no major capital project was completed, neither power generation, road development, rail or agriculture benefitted from the windfall earnings" he only further exposes his intellectual laziness and failing memory.

Obviously Garba Shehu has forgotten that when his boss was commissioning the Abuja-Kaduna 187KM fast railway that enables Nigerians work in Abuja and live in Kaduna, he was forced to admit that the project was conceived, built and completed by the Jonathan administration.

At that event, President Muhammadu Buhari said about the $1.5 billion project and I quote "This project was conceived by a previous administration, started by the last government".

My question to Mr. Shehu is this-who is a liar between him and his boss?

I also urge Garba Shehu to take note of the fact that the only Federal University in his boss's home state of Katsina was built by the Jonathan administration in addition to 13 other universities and 165 Almajiri schools built all over Nigeria. For people who don't value education, I am not surprised that they see this as "nothing to show"!

It may also interest Garba Shehu to note that the Jonathan administration revived the moribund Nigerian Railways Corporation to the extent that the loquacious Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi was forced to confess on December 15, 2015 and I quote "In fact, I think we have a problem; most people don’t believe that the railway transport is functioning in Nigeria. I didn’t even know, until I started this tour, I never knew that the railway was functioning, it was even from his (MD’s) speech that I learnt that there are some coaches or services that go to Kano or Port Harcourt or elsewhere."

These are just a few of the infrastructural legacies of the Jonathan era.

It is quite surprising that Garba Shehu now praises the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, His Royal Majesty, Muhammadu Sanusi II.

Nigerians have not forgotten that it is the same Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, now Muhammadu Sanusi II who carpeted the economic policies of the Buhari administration, saying that under the Buhari administration, and again I quote, “There is one rate for petroleum marketers, there is interbank rate, there is another for money market operators such as western union, money gram, there is bureau de change rate and there is a special rate you get when you call the CBN for a transaction."

My other question to Garba Shehu is this, how will an economy not collapse when you have multiple exchange rates?

Malam Garba and his boss continues to show that they are in over their necks by their statements. For instance, Garba says "At the inception of the current administration, 21 States were unable to meet their salary bills and the spectre of workers arrears had commenced. The PDP solution was the raid the Ecological Fund and selectively grant N2Bn each to the PDP States."

Is it that Garba Shehu and his boss do not know that Nigeria is a federation and that the Federal Government cannot control the states? No wonder they are against restructuring and want to throw the report of the 2014 National Conference into the dustbin.

We have already proved that the accusation re the Ecological Fund is a lie and it shows desperation on the side of the Presidency to rehash it.

When that notorious liar, Nasir El-Rufai first made the accusation, we showed, with documentary evidence, that core PDP states like Akwa-Ibom, where the then chairman of the PDP Governors Forum comes from and Ekiti state which was the only PDP state in the Southwest, did not benefit from the Ecological Fund. Meanwhile, 10 states which were of the then opposition All Progressive Congress did.

Apparently, when Garba Shehu and Lai Mohammed speak, they speak their native language, lies!

Mr. Garba Shehu would do well to remember that his boss promised Nigerians 3 million jobs every year. Rather, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, 4.58 million jobs, created by the Jonathan led PDP administration, were lost in his boss's first year.

Laughably, Garba Shehu cites the fight against corruption and the terror war as major achievements of the Buhari administration.

How can Garba Shehu reconcile his so called anti corruption war with the fact that Nigeria has made NO PROGRESS in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index under Buhari and in the latest CPI Transparency International said and I quote "Some other large African countries have failed to improve their scores on the index. These include South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya."

On the alleged terror war, Nigerians will recall that President Muhammadu Buhari said that Boko Haram has been technically defeated.

My question is how can a defeated Boko Haram now have the ability to kidnap policewomen and oil explorers? How can a defeated Boko Haram attack military formations? How can a defeated Boko Haram carry out more suicide bombing a in the last eight months than at any other time in Nigeria's history.

Has Garba Shehu forgotten that on July 6, 2017, the World Economic Forum named Nigeria as the fifth most dangerous country in the world? Or that on the 4th of February 2017, the United States Congress cited Nigeria as "the most dangerous place for Christians in the world"?

Garba Shehu can continue living in his fool's paradise but he should give Nigerians more credit than to issue the pathetic tissue of lies that he called a response to former President Jonathan's comments at this past weekend's non elective Congress of the PDP.

Dr. Jonathan spoke generally about the positive impact of the PDP administrations on the lives of Nigerians and specifically on some of his exemplary achievements that made life better for the citizenry. He spoke about his reforms in the electoral process, transport, rail services, industrial and automotive policy, as well as the transformational impact of many other policies like YouWin, Youth Enterprises with Innovation (YouWin), bank verification number (BVN), the treasury single account (TSA) and the e-wallet system which were all measures designed to fight corruption.

The time for propaganda is long gone. Any body who wants to differ should speak to those issues raised, and not boasts about accomplishments that are not visible. The succeeding administration has been on the saddle for more than half of its four-year tenure.

This is the time for it to display its scorecard, especially since the blame game no longer connects with Nigerians. At some point under the PDP oil price fell to as low as $30 dollars and the party never cited that as a reason for non-performance.

It is up to Nigerians to determine if they are better or worse off today than they were in 2015, when former President Goodluck Jonthan left office.

Finally, I urge Garba Shehu to go back and read Malam El-Rufai's memo to President Muhammadu Buhari where El-Rufai said, and I quote, "In very blunt terms, Mr. President, our APC administration has not only failed to manage expectations of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even mundane matters of governance outside of our successes in fighting BH insurgency and corruption."

Reno Omokri (Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies)
for former Dr. Goodluck Jonathan
President of Nigeria 2010-2015.

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gej our hero. cursed be he cancer ravaged dullard in Britain

God will bless buhari and every nigeria politicians that has the interests of their people at heart.let jonathan keep quiet,lest i'll be tempted to call him clueless and drunkard as he's fondly called by some people today. Jonathan was too careless as a president and lootings took place indiscriminately under his watch,which partly caused the problem we are facing today.as it's not proper to attribute the whole blame of today's problems on him, same way we cannot completely unconnect his name from today's problem. So he should keep quiet and allow the current regime fix things.

If I were Buhari... I won't come back again.

It is over.

Progressive01... Omenka

Let's have a life discussion on this thread please.

Stop looking for Nnamdi Kanu's thread to spew junks.

If PDP had been countering APC lies and deceit from day one. Things might not have gotten this bad. So many people bought APC lies and cut them too much slack! Imagine taking six months to appoint clueless ministers

Solid evidence based response! APC now has its hands full. PDP now on the attack!
Nigeria sai PDP!!!!

Only if those Liars association can read these, how sweet the thing would have be?
But, Mr Reno Omokri, dat one na baddest SMACKDOWN for the current administration o, e tew much.

chai ! chai !! my chest, my chest ooo

which kind wahala be this?

kwankwaso don decamp

hassan of kuje area council don decamp

that kano state man what is that his name again? the man dey our camp already

atiku is weighing his options, might declare tomorrow


this is not a good time to be a zombie at all



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very funny my guy, the stupid A APC doesn't know the meaning of proper agenda. Such term is too complicated for people with the IQ of a chewing stick (point out any APC zombié for confirmation)

Any time I read or listen to the president media aides dishing out their jaundiced unintelligent mumbo jumbos I feels sorry for Buboo for surrounding himself with such dumbfucks.

But when the head is dry can the mind provide anything meaningful

Awon omo olori gbigbe. All they are good at are propaganda, lies and media trials.

APC only survives by propaganda.... take it away from them, they are lost niyen... even pple like Tinubu, Saraki etc, now know the party is a lost cause because of that tribalist in London....

tuniski:
Solid evidence based response! APC now has its hands full. PDP now on the attack!
Nigeria sai PDP!!!!

I tell you

"Goodluck Ebele Jonathan" I so much love and respect this man for his humility.

obonujoker:
APC only survives by propaganda.... take it away from them, they are lost niyen... even pple like Tinubu, Saraki etc, now know the party is a lost cause because of that tribalist in London....

will they agree

I wish all Nigerians can make good use of their PVC come 2019 and not allowed their conscience bought over for a pot of beans

Solid points!

RZArecta:
very funny my guy, the stupid A APC doesn't know the meaning of proper agenda. Such term is too complicated for people with the IQ of a chewing stick (point out any APC zombié for confirmation)

Do they even know the meaning change? And that's the mantra on which they came to power.

They'll soon be here to accuse Gej/PDP of corruption as usual cos that's all their brain can process like their oga at the top.

Bunch of brain cripples.

What a presidential reply. GEJ you are truly the people's president.

Now THAT is what I call TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT with FACTS!! PDP slowly bounces back.

Sincerely, GEJ team response was factual. Figures and well referenced.

Now, I am deep in thought. With the new found boldness by GEJ to take on PMB, he must have a loaded armoury prepared for the war!

sholatech:
Sincerely, GEJ team response was factual. Figures and well referenced.

Now, I am deep in thought. With the new found boldness by GEJ to take on PMB, he must have a loaded armoury prepared for the war!

When you keeping pushing a man and he gets to the wall then he's got no other option than to react.

Gej has been patient enough with this government lies/propaganda and the gloves are finally off. Let APC and Buboo do their worse.

Thank God gullible Nigerians have finally realized that present administration is an error and the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria. They've dug their own grave and it's just a matter of time for them to get buried.

sholatech:
Sincerely, GEJ team response was factual. Figures and well referenced.

Now, I am deep in thought. With the new found boldness by GEJ to take on PMB, he must have a loaded armoury prepared for the war!

Some things re definitely happening behind the scenes which u nd I don't know about and I am so sure that this is the reason for Jonathan's sudden boldness...The coming weeks nd months will surely be interesting as there will be a lot of realignment of interests ahead of 2019 which we re few months shy of nd the race has just begun in earnest... .

GeJ is a shameless idoit

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PUSH1:
GeJ is a shameless idoit

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YOU ARE MENTALLY LAZY. READ OR FLY THE FVCK OUTA HERE. EWU GAMBIA

ALL ALONG, GEJ WAS PATIENTLY WAITING FOR THE SUPREME CASE BTW MAKARFI VS SHERIF. TO GEJ, IT"S TIME TO TREAT APC LIKE THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS THEY ARE.

MAY IT NEVER BE WELL WITH WHO EVER BROUGHT THIS USELESS PARTY TO POWER INSHALAH

Wendel Simlin Can only fool fellow fools. Why did Nigerians vote out Gej and PDP? ....because of unprecedented corruption and cluelessness. It was so bad that Gej's finance minister and the coordinator of the economy told us to prepare for recession in 2014 when her ministry started borrowing money to pay salaries.
I reproduce her warning below:












Brace for tougher times ahead,
Okonjo-Iweala tells Nigerians
November 14, 2014 Premium
Times
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigerians should brace for
tougher economic times ahead,
the Minister of Finance, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, has said as crude
oil prices slipped to a four year
low on Wednesday.
New York Mercantile Exchange
(NYMEX) December WTI oil futures
sold at $75.20 per barrel on
Wednesday, down $1.98, from $
74.96 per barrel the previous day,
the lowest level for a most-active
contract since September 2010.
Though the price of sweet crude,
the blend of oil export from
Nigeria, rose marginally at the
close of trading on Wednesday to
$76.96 per barrel, it has already
crashed below the $79 per barrel
benchmark approved in the 2014
Appropriation Act, concerns are
mounting that tough times are
indeed ahead.
At the end of the Federation
Accounts Allocation Committee
(FAAC) meeting for September,
Federal, States and Local
Governments were only able to go
home with N603.5 billion
allocation after they resolved to
borrow about $2.76 billion from
the Excess Crude Revenue
Account to augment shortfall in
revenue generated during the
period.
The Federal Government had
attributed the declining revenues
to the fall in prices at the
international oil market.
After drawing from the ECA,
Minister of State for Finance,
Bashir Yuguda, said the balance in
the account had dropped further
from $4.1 billion to about $1.34
billion at the moment.
But Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said in
Lagos on Tuesday that the
economic indicators show there
are tougher times ahead.
Though she said the country’s
External Reserves rose from $
36.6billion at the end of June to $
39.48billion by October 16, and
the balance in the Sovereign
Wealth Fund at $1.55billion,
accruals from oil exports have
been

Babacele:
Wendel Simlin Can only fool fellow fools. Why did Nigerians vote out Gej and PDP? ....because of unprecedented corruption and clueless. It was so bad that Gej's finance minister and the coordinator of the economy told us to prepare for recession in 2014 when her ministry started borrowing money to pay salaries.
I reproduce her warning below:












Brace for tougher times ahead,
Okonjo-Iweala tells Nigerians
November 14, 2014 Premium
Times
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigerians should brace for
tougher economic times ahead,
the Minister of Finance, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, has said as crude
oil prices slipped to a four year
low on Wednesday.
New York Mercantile Exchange
(NYMEX) December WTI oil futures
sold at $75.20 per barrel on
Wednesday, down $1.98, from $
74.96 per barrel the previous day,
the lowest level for a most-active
contract since September 2010.
Though the price of sweet crude,
the blend of oil export from
Nigeria, rose marginally at the
close of trading on Wednesday to
$76.96 per barrel, it has already
crashed below the $79 per barrel
benchmark approved in the 2014
Appropriation Act, concerns are
mounting that tough times are
indeed ahead.
At the end of the Federation
Accounts Allocation Committee
(FAAC) meeting for September,
Federal, States and Local
Governments were only able to go
home with N603.5 billion
allocation after they resolved to
borrow about $2.76 billion from
the Excess Crude Revenue
Account to augment shortfall in
revenue generated during the
period.
The Federal Government had
attributed the declining revenues
to the fall in prices at the
international oil market.
After drawing from the ECA,
Minister of State for Finance,
Bashir Yuguda, said the balance in
the account had dropped further
from $4.1 billion to about $1.34
billion at the moment.
But Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said in
Lagos on Tuesday that the
economic indicators show there
are tougher times ahead.
Though she said the country’s
External Reserves rose from $
36.6billion at the end of June to $
39.48billion by October 16, and
the balance in the Sovereign
Wealth Fund at $1.55billion,
accruals from oil exports have
been

You dished out useless propaganda without fact.

Na now PDP wake up?

They should be glad that BUHARI decided not to interfere wit d judiciary.

If PDP was in govt n APC had d kind of crisis they had,that will be d end of APC.

Waiting for 2019.

APC must go.

TheFreeOne:


When you keeping pushing a man and he gets to the wall then he's got no other option than to react.

Gej has been patient enough with this government lies/propaganda and the gloves are finally off. Let APC and Buboo do their worse.

Thank God gullible Nigerians have finally realized that present administration is an error and the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria. They've dug their own grave and it's just a matter of time for them to get buried.

Patient enough?

Abeg go siddon.

It is d supreme court ruling dat made him suddenly get his voice.

Let wait and see. One million Atiku and Kwankwaso cannot stand Buhari in the north.

richidinho:
chai ! chai !! my chest, my chest ooo

which kind wahala be this?

kwankwaso don decamp

hassan of kuje area council don decamp

that kano state man what is that his name again? the man dey our camp already

atiku is weighing his options, might declare tomorrow


this is not a good time to be a zombie at all



cc:
mynd44, madridguy, sarrki
omenka aka progressives1-5, aka omenkalives
ngeneukwenu

If i were Buhari, i will just resign and retain the little remaining respect before it's too late.