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Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala ran Nigeria like a come-and-chop restaurant — Shehu Sani

Senator-elect Shehu Sani(M), during a congratulatory visit of NURTW exco in Kaduna.Photo~Abdullahi Garba

Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala ran Nigeria like a come-and-chop restaurant — Shehu Sani

byGarba Muhammad
May 9, 2015
2 min read

The Senator-elect for Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, on Saturday tackled President Goodluck Jonathan on the sale of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, and the  last-minutes sale of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, NITEL.

He also carpeted the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her economic policy.

The senator-elect also described the current impasse in the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, as a disgrace to Nigerian workers.

Mr. Sani, while receiving the Kaduna state executive of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, who visited him in his office in Kaduna, said the privatization exercise under President Goodluck Jonathan is a monumental theft of Nigeria’s collective resources in the interest of a few.

“The sale of PHCN has not translated into consistent electric power in our homes, in our offices , in our markets and in our work place,” he said, adding that the issue of privatization has also seriously affected many workers who were employed in those institutions for decades.

Mr. Sani also stated that, “the last minute-sale of NITEL to a private firm at a time when the government is supposed to be preparing notes for handover is also suspicious or irrelevant at this time”.

The Senator-elected also accused Mrs Okonjo-Iweala of damaging Nigeria’s economy by policies he said failed to impact positively on the lives of Nigerians.

“They claim progressive economic statistics on paper while our people continue to suffer in abject poverty, want and penury.

“All the economic indicators that have been churned out by the Jonathan administration is in direct conflict with the reality of the situation on ground as far as Nigeria is concerned.

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“Most of our industries have closed down, the value of our naira has crashed and many people are out of job and the claim of thousands of jobs created by the government is suspect and simply on paper.This is also an issue we have to look at in the incoming administration,” he added.

He described the government of President Jonathan as “literally a political restaurant whereby people are invited to come and feed.That is why President Jonathan is saying that those who decamped from PDP to APC will come back with empty stomach.

“The idea of governance under Jonathan is about people using the opportunity of being in office to service themselves and their immediate families.

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“The bickering in the PDP after the failed elections are simply nothing but pant of death of a party that has inflicted serious hardship on Nigerians in the last 16 years.”

On the NLC crisis, Mr Sani said the crisis in the labour union is a disgrace to workers, to Nigerian people and to the country at large.

He said it is unfortunate that after decades of viable labour movement in Nigeria, the country now has a labour that is divided against itself.

“NLC as it exists at this time cannot fight the interest of Nigerian workers as long as it remains divided,” Mr. Sani said.

He called on the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari to reconcile the factions within the NLC for the collective interest of Nigeria and the Nigerian workers because according to him, “a house divided against itself cannot stand”.

He also told his visitors that as a very important sector of the economy, they have a role to play in mobilizing and sensitizing people for the success of the incoming administration.

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Mr. Sani advocated a bill to protect the local automobile industry so that Nigerians would better patronize made-in-Nigeria cars, saying that would provide jobs and boost Nigeria’s economy.

The state chairman of the NURTW, Alhassan Haruna, appealed to government to come to the aid of his Union’s over 60,000 members by assisting them to improve on their transport business.

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