Former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi would not have been spared from similar economic challenges being faced by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu if they had emerged as the winner of the 2023 election.
Chidoka who made this known on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, noted that the eight years of Buhari were a destroying eight years.
While emphasizing that there is no switchboard one can just light and address the damage been done overnight, the former Aviation Minister stated that the APC-led Buhari government destroyed value in a significant and unprecedented manner.
He claimed that the economic challenges being faced across the country were caused by the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari who he said “destroyed” Nigeria’s economy for eight years.
“That government actually acquired 23 trillion in Ways and Means and borrowed money in dollars, that has significantly hindered the government’s ability to have foreign exchange because you need to service those debt in dollars. So, any government that comes in would have faced significant headwinds whether it was Atiku, Obi or Sowore.
“The difference that the President is suffering is not economics, Nigeria was going barely up. We were going to pay for the foreign exchange they were manipulating and selling to themselves at N400, this president has said we should pay the price”. He added.
Chidoka who maintained that Tinubu’s challenge is that he lacks political consensus in Nigeria in making these tough decisions, also explained that people who voted for the president are a minority in Nigeria.
He said that 63 percent of the voters did not vote for him hence the needs for him to woo them.
