Speaking during an
APC meeting with organized private sector at Marina, Lagos today February 2nd,
Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, told his audience the difference
between APC & PDP
"The manifesto of the APC is
designed to address 2015 problems going on to 2019 while PDP has is a 1999
manifesto and that probably explains the disconnect between our realities and
the realities that you hear. The transformation that has been put forth has
headed south not west. The Naira has weakened, interest rates has come up and
it is for us to choose whether we want four more years of that and the Naira is
essential in a free fall in an economy that is currently import denominated and
it would only mean that the purchasing power of our disposable income would
continue to reduce." he said
"The necessity of now is to halt that free fall. That is something we cannot vote continuity on. I will not. But more importantly as the candidate, Gen Buhari, has said, it is essentially not how much really Nigeria earns, it is what value we get out of that money. If we had sold crude oil, our major income earner for like almost 5-6 years at over a $100 per barrel and all of us are saying there is pain, do we want to continue now when there is reduced income with the same team on the same management capacity? If they couldn't do topnotch at $100 per barrel, can we trust them to do more with less?" he added.
"The necessity of now is to halt that free fall. That is something we cannot vote continuity on. I will not. But more importantly as the candidate, Gen Buhari, has said, it is essentially not how much really Nigeria earns, it is what value we get out of that money. If we had sold crude oil, our major income earner for like almost 5-6 years at over a $100 per barrel and all of us are saying there is pain, do we want to continue now when there is reduced income with the same team on the same management capacity? If they couldn't do topnotch at $100 per barrel, can we trust them to do more with less?" he added.
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