2023: Atiku’s blueprint poor version of president Buhari’s model – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has expressed that the economic blueprint of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is a poor copy of President Muhammadu Buhari’s model

He said even their worst critics will agree that their record on infrastructure development is next to none in the history of this country adding that Atiku’s version is the poor version of what is on ground.

“Let’s start with infrastructure. The former vice-president said, in his Economic Blueprint, that ‘rebuilding infrastructure and reducing infrastructure deficit will enhance the carrying capacity of the economy and unleash growth and wealth creation,” Mohammed said.

“No one understands this better than this administration. Even our worst critics will agree that our record on infrastructure development is next to none in the history of this country.

“The former vice-president also promised to ‘break the jinx’ in infrastructure financing. Really? We state, unequivocally, that the
worst jinx in infrastructure financing was the PDP administration from 1999 to 2015

“Indeed, the Buhari administration has long broken that jinx, leveraging on such innovative schemes as the PresidentialInfrastructure Development Fund (which is being used to finance the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, 2nd Niger Bridge and theAbuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road), Sukuk (which has delivered a total of 1,881 kilometres of roads between 2017 and 2020) and the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme.”