Former Delta State Governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke has taken a swipe at the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi for attacking former President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to Onuesoke, Amaechi’s recent outburst was to divert attention from the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) led government.
He said the minister’s vituperation against former President Goodluck Jonathan during his appearance on a private television station was to divert attention from the failure of his ministry, principal and party.
Mr. Amaechi had on Channels Television’s programme, ‘Hard Copy’, said the money left behind for Nigeria by former President Goodluck Jonathan at the point of his departure on May 29, 2015 was not enough to run the affairs of the country for three weeks.
He also claimed that bandits and all other groups that kill was a result of poverty which did not start under the present administration.
But reacting to Amaechi’s allegation , Onuesoke said the Transport Minister’s allegation against Jonathan has no iota of truth but an attempt to divert attention of Nigerians from the failure of the APC led administration.
Onuesoke, who described Amaechi’s allegations as a move to tarnish the image of Jonathan and PDP administration wondered how possible it was that the money left behind by the ex-President couldn’t sustain Nigeria for three weeks just as he queried the source of funds used to sustained the economy for the past years.
He said it is embarrassing that a government that has ruled for two terms keep on blaming a government that ruled for only one term and wondered when the present government will stop the blame game and concentrate on fulfilling the promises made to Nigerians.
“How does a two term President keep blaming a one term President? It makes me feel they know they have failed hence the resort to heaping blame on Jonathan. They keep on blaming Jonathan because they see their failures staring them in the face,” he stated.
The PDP Chieftain argued that Nigeria had a better economy under PDP, stressing that under APC the economy is running at a deficit.
According to him, “Under PDP, you had a government that listens, had rule of law and you can protest without fear. The cost of living was way better, unemployment was far lesser, insecurity was contained to an area, electricity supply and charges were way better.
“But today, you are dying yet can’t cry. You dare to cry, you end up behind bars. Egg of 20 naira now sells for 70-80 naira. Indomie of 20 naira now sells for 80-99 naira. Pure water of 5 naira now sells for 20-30 naira. Electricity bills of 1,500 Naira, now 40,000 naira with no light.”
As for bandits and insurgents attacks, the former Delta State Gubernatorial aspirant recalled that during Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Boko Haram activities were curtailed far into the forest of Borno state, adding that the ex-president almost silenced the insurgents before the coming of the present administration.
“But presently we do not only have Boko Haram insurgents, we now have ISWAP and bandits killing and abducting innocent Nigerian in all the Northern part of Nigeria,” he noted.
