Atiku Abubakar

The Campaign Organisation of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections is angry over President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent donation of $500,000 and other materials to help  Guinea Bissau organize its national election.

In a statement on Sunday, the Campaign Organization said the donation is an example of ‘persisting financial profligacy’ that has led the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to “destroy a once thriving economy.”

The statement read: “The Buhari government has announced that it is making a $500,000 donation to Guinea Bissau, along with other material donations.

“Our response is to ask why a nation that has been officially named as the world headquarters for extreme poverty, will donate her resources to others instead of using them to solve pressing domestic problems?

“This is the same government that is so cash strapped that it has so far borrowed ₦13 trillion in 3 years putting our economy in even greater peril. How prudent is it to go about taking loans from whomsoever cares to lend you money and then turn around to give out those same monies even when your own people are suffering the worst forms of poverty they have ever endured?

“We call on the Buhari administration to cut their coat according to their cloth. These huge loans they are collecting, only to squander it, will be repaid by future generations and limit the nation’s ability to invest in projects that will Get Nigeria Working Again.

“There are over a million Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria. If you cannot adequately support your own people in dire need, what is the wisdom in crossing borders to support others?

“We have the moral authority to question this administration’s profligacy and imprudence, because Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP was part of an administration that paid off Nigeria’s entire foreign debt.”