Former Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that despite the economic challenges the country faced during the last administration, they left some solid economic legacies for the Buhari led administration.
Debunking claims that the economy was in shambles before the new administration took off, as claimed by President Muhammadu Buhari she said, “such claims are untrue” and that the “current economic crisis rocking the country could partly be attributed to the unguarded utterances and unfounded allegations against the last administration by certain individuals whom for the sake of political gains, painted the economy black and by so doing, sent a negative message to the international community and investors” as she once warned.
She added that despite the challenges they faced in the last administration, they did their best and had everything under control but that the Buhari administration is now in charge and responsible for the direction of the economy.
It could be recalled that the ex-Finance minister once warned that the unfounded allegations on the economy against the Jonathan administration, could result to unintended consequences.
She said, “The allegations that the economy was in ruins are absolutely false,”
“we cannot take away the fact that the Jonathan administration, in spite of the challenges caused by 50 per cent decline in the price of oil, has made a clear and measurable difference in many important areas and anyone who says nothing has been done and nothing is being left behind is being very unfair to facts and to history.
