PDP blames Buhari for Ministers’ absence at US investors’ meeting

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(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for the absence of Nigeria’s Ministers at a scheduled meeting with investors from the United States of America.
In a statement on Sunday by the party's spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP tasked the National Assembly to immediately wade into the matter and unravel what truly transpired in the United States.
"How can government officials sent to attend investors’ meetings abandon their duties and engage in personal leisure abroad? Painfully, they blame everybody but themselves for the choking economic situation of the country in the last three years.
"This embarrassing development is indeed a clear reflection of the recklessness and laissez-faire attitude of the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration towards governance, resulting in the biting economic recession and other woes plaguing our nation.
"It is now clear to Nigerians why the APC and its 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.
"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 urge the National Assembly to spare no rods but to immediately summon the Ministers named in the saga, including Dr. Audu Ogbeh (Agriculture), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology), Alhaji Lai Mohammed (Information) Babatunde Fashola (Power), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu (Petroleum Resources, State), Kemi Adeosun (Finance) and Kayode Fayemi (Solid minerals),” the statement read.

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