Be prudent with national resources, Atiku campaign team counsels Buhari

The federal government has been called upon to guard against economy ruins by avoiding persistent financial profligacy.

This is coming as the Buhari government has announced that it is making a $500,000 donation to Guinea Bissau, along with other material donations.

Calling government’s attention to the danger inherent in unnecessary expenses as a nation, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation counseled the government to be prudent with national resources

The organisation queried the rationale behind a nation that has been officially named as the world headquarters for extreme poverty, donating her resources to others instead of using them to solve pressing domestic problems?

In a statement on Sunday the organisation said “this is the same government that is so cash strapped that it has so far borrowed ₦13 trillion in 3 years putting our economy in even greater peril.

How prudent is it to go about taking loans from whosoever cares to lend you money and then turn around to give out those same monies even when your own people are suffering the worst forms of poverty they have ever endured?

It said the Buhari administration will only collect these huge loans only to squander it, and leave the debt burden to be repaid by future generations and limit the nation’s ability to invest in projects that will Get Nigeria Working Again.

It charged the government to turn its attention to support over a million Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria rather than crossing borders to support others.

“We have the moral authority to question this administration’s profligacy and imprudence, because Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP was part of an administration that paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt.

We are therefore concerned to see this government piling on debt and then squandering it away without any consideration for the needs of her own people”, it said.