Obasanjo too busy to notice Buhari’s achievements – FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo might have been too busy to notice the efforts being made by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to revamp the nation’s economy.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this while addressing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The minister however commended Obasanjo for lauding the administration’s efforts to fight corruption and insecurity.

He was reacting to a statement in which Obasanjo asked Buhari not to seek second term.

“We have no doubt that in the face of massive challenges in this area, this administration has availed itself creditably. We believe that Chief Obasanjo, because of his very busy schedule, may not have been fully availed of developments in the government’s efforts to revamp the economy, which was battered by the consequences of over-dependence on a commodity as well as unprecedented pillaging of the treasury.

“Today, most of the indices by which an economy is measured are looking up. Permit me to say, however, that Nigeria would not have exited recession through a mere order or if the Administration had not made use of ”good Nigerians” who could help.

“This administration is making steady progress in its determined effort to revamp the economy, and the results are showing.”