{"id":85980,"date":"2021-09-14T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85980"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:25:57","slug":"fresh-4bn-e710m-loans-buhari-apc-mortgaging-nigeria-pdp-cries-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fresh-4bn-e710m-loans-buhari-apc-mortgaging-nigeria-pdp-cries-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh $4bn, \u20ac710m Loans: Buhari, APC Mortgaging Nigeria, PDP Cries Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has vehemently rejected reported moves by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration to further mortgage our nation with a fresh N2.66 trillion ($4 billion and \u20ac710 million) external loan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said that with the reckless borrowing by President Buhari and the APC, Nigerians might eventually not have a nation and a patrimony that they can freely call their own, after the APC, which has less than two years to vacate office.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The PDP laments that with the N33.107 trillion debt already accumulated by President Buhari and the APC with nothing to show but decayed infrastructure and a depressed economy, an addition N5.62 trillion borrowing proposed by Buhari for the 2022 budget and now a fresh N2.66 trillion external loan, the APC will be hanging over N40 trillion debt on the nation, with no clear-cut repayment plan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;More alarming is that the debts that APC is hanging on Nigerians are for nebulous projects whose scopes, utilities, locations and contractors are largely vague; a development that validates apprehensions of a huge swindle on our nation at the expense of innocent Nigerians, including generation yet unborn.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our party holds it as an act of wickedness that individuals who know that they will be leaving office in less than two years will be accumulating debts instead of seeking ways to reduce the liability they have brought upon our nation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The APC knows it will not be around after May 29, 2023. 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