THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the country needs an experienced hand to run its affairs and cannot afford what he described as “a greenhorn” to rule Africa’s most populous nation.
He made the comment at the National Economic Summit Group (NESG) presidential dialogue on the economy in Lagos on Monday, noting, in a veiled form, that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot be trusted with power again.
“As head of the economic management team, while I was Vice President, I was instrumental in designing a private sector revival strategy and advocated for the opening of the economy for private sector investments in several sectors. And we made tremendous progress,” the former vice president tweeted on his handle.
“I’m sure you still remember the good old days of rapid economic growth with stable interest and exchange rates, low inflation, low unemployment rates, and low poverty headcount. We paid off nearly all of our foreign debt which was crippling the country.
“It will be dangerous for Nigeria to relinquish their future to a greenhorn or the national leader of the same party that brought us to this very sorry situation.”
