•Restates call on Senate to reject Onochie’s nomination for INEC job
Chuks Okocha
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for the increasing rate of poverty in the country, following a report by the World Bank.
The party has also threatened to file a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, if the Senate fails to reject the nomination of presidential aide, Ms. Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The World Bank, in a report released on Tuesday, had stated that inflation pushed about seven million Nigerians below the poverty line in 2020.
Its position contradicted that of Buhari, who in a broadcast on Saturday to mark Democracy Day had said that his administration had lifted 10.5 million people out of poverty in two years.
But the PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, blamed the All…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
