By Emmanuel Elebeke
The Federal Government has said the apocalyptic scenarios on the country’s debt profile, as painted by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in his press statement on Tuesday, is nothing but scaremongering anchored on a false premise.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said while the Federal Government welcomes constructive criticism, such must be based on verifiable facts rather than conjectures and innuendos.
”There is no doubt that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar loves our country and wishes it well, otherwise he would not have sustained his serial quest for the country’s highest position. One can only hope that his resort to the use of such words as ‘precipice’, ‘foreclosure’ and ‘economic ruin’ does not reflect anything but best wishes for the country at this time,” he said.
Alhaji Mohammed said the figure of Nigeria’s debt to revenue…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
