Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has lamented Nigeria’s current debt status and level of poverty in the country.
In a series of tweets, the 2019 PDP presidential candidate said, ‘as head of the National Economic Council in 2006, under the leadership of ex-President Obasanjo, we paid off Nigeria’s entire debt. It thus breaks my heart to see that after that sacrifice, Nigeria in the last 4 years returned to being a heavily indebted extremely poor nation’.
Atiku Abubakar✔@atiku
Nigeria’s debt has more than doubled from ₦12 trillion in 2015, to ₦24.9 trillion in 2019, yet we became the world headquarters for extreme poverty. Irresponsible borrowing results in unprecedented sorrowing. We mustn’t saddle future generations with debt instead of prosperity.
Atiku Abubakar✔@atiku
As head of the National Economic Council in 2006, under the leadership of ex-President Obasanjo, we paid off Nigeria’s entire debt. It thus breaks my heart to see that after that sacrifice, Nigeria in the last 4 years returned to being a heavily indebted extremely poor nation.
Atiku Abubakar✔@atiku
Without the checks and balances occasioned by a truly independent and self accounting Legislature and Judiciary, as co-equal and non-subordinate arms of government, we will continue to have a profligate executive that borrows to sustain its greed and not the nation’s need.
Atiku Abubakar✔@atiku
As it stands today, every man, woman and child in Nigeria is now not only poorer than they were in 2015, additionally, we all individually owe more than twice what we did in 2015. We may not have participated in the profligate borrowing, but we all suffer the resultant sorrowing.
