Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has condoled with the families of all those who lost dear ones as a result of cash crunch in the country, adding that the frustrations Nigerians are passing thorough is one of the symptoms of the maladministration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
Atiku in a statement on Thursday called on the ruling party to take responsibility for the crashing of its policies. He said that it is political expediency for the APC that has brought Nigerians to this cul de sac to want to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that the crisis was created by others.
According to Atiku, “This crisis may be coming on the heels of the currency swap, but it is pertinent to remind us that it is a culmination of the frustrations of Nigerians arising from the maladministration of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the past 7 years plus.
“Truth be told, the crisis that we are witnessing today was conceived, given birth to and nurtured by the ruling APC.
“We are all witnesses to the myriad of problems that Nigerians have had to endure as a result of the cluelessness of the APC, which came into government with no idea of a policy direction.
“We are witnesses to the massive erosion of jobs; hunger and multidimensional poverty; unabated fuel scarcity; deteriorating security that has created an industry of kidnapping and massacre of defenseless citizens; free fall of the Naira; ASUU strike which kept students at home for prolonged periods of time and a general sense of hopelessness.
“The current crisis, fallout of the policy of the ruling party’s redesign of the Naira, is only the tipping point. The least the ruling APC can do is to take responsibility for its own policy and the challenges that have followed its implementation, even as we collectively work at addressing those challenges”.
