After months of blaming the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for
\nthe current state of Nigeria\u2019s economy, the ruling All Progressives
\nCongress (APC) has accepted responsibility.
\nThe APC also promised to fix the problems.<\/p>\n
The APC\u2019s position was stated by Governor Rochas Okorocha who briefed
\njournalists after a meeting between the party\u2019s governors and President
\nMuhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n
Recal that APC blamed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party for the
\ncountry\u2019s current economic crisis.<\/p>\n
Chairman of the Party, chief John Oyegun had stated similar stance and
\nasked the opposition party, the PDP, to apologize to Nigerians. It,
\nhowever, assured that President Muhammadu Buhari would undertake the
\n\u201curgent task\u201d of reviving the \u201cbattered\u201d economy.<\/p>\n
Nigeria\u2019s economy is officially in recession, the National Bureau of But APC, in a statement by its National Secretary, Mai Buni, insisted the The situation has seen many Nigerians struggle to eke out living, and Since Mr. Buhari came to power in May last year, a total of 4.58 million After months of blaming the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the current state of Nigeria\u2019s economy, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accepted responsibility. The APC also promised…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nStatistics confirmed on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, saying the country\u2019s Gross Domestic
\nProduct contracted by 2.06 per cent in the second quarter of 2016, the
\nsecond time of recording negative growth rate consecutively.<\/p>\n
\nmanners in which the economy was managed as well as \u201cunprecedented\u201d high
\nscale corruption under the PDP government of former President Goodluck
\nJonathan were the circumstances that plunged Nigeria into the current
\neconomic quagmire.<\/p>\n
\nvarious companies close shops or retrench workers.<\/p>\n
\nNigerians have become unemployed over a period that stretches through 2015
\nQ3, Q4 and 2016 Q1, Q2, NBS revealed on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"