Buhari’s 774,000 jobs, CAMA, others not an achievement — PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have criticised the “35 second-term achievements” of President Buhari, saying they should not be recorded as achievements.

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Daily Times Nigeria reports that the Presidency, on Friday, made a list of 35 policies, programmes and projects as the second-term achievements of the President.

The Presidency, in a statement via its Twitter handle, @NGRPresident, on Friday, listed, amongst other accomplishments, the “presidential assent to a landmark Bill amending the Companies and Allied Matters Act.”

Commenting on Friday evening on Channels Television’s programme “Politics Today”, Osita Chidoka, an adviser to PDP National Chairman Uche Secondus, said the creation of new ministries should not be tagged as an achievement.

Chidoka, a former Minister of Aviation, said, “I was surprised that the government released a list of 35 achievements this year because a year ago or two years ago, they released 64 achievements. So, even by their quantum of achievements, the government has declined in productivity.

“But when you look at the quality of the achievements, the GDP of this country has fallen from ₦520 billion in 2018 to ₦350 billion… So, everybody is poorer in this country,” he said.

Meanwhile, Buhari had on August 7 signed into law, the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020. The bill, which has been passed by the National Assembly, replaced the 1990 CAMA.

However, the controversial law has been rejected by the Christian Association of Nigeria which described as “satanic”, section 839 (1) and (2) of the law that empowers the supervising minister “to suspend trustees of an association (in this case, the church) and appoint the interim managers to manage the affairs of the association for some given reasons.”