Emefiele, Udoma and Adeosun
In an official statement released in Abuja on Sunday, a member of
the Senate representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, Senator Dino
Melaye, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take drastic
measures on the ailing economy.
The outspoken influential APC chieftain also urged the president to
overhaul his incompetent cabinet with the immediate removal of the
Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of Budget and National
Planning, Senator Udo Udoma; and the Governor of the Central bank of
Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
Senator Dino Melaye also accused some members of the president's
cabinet as lacking the capacity to deliver on the mandates of their
ministries and agencies, adding that Adeosun, Udoma and Emefiele should
be axed for the economy to be effectively rebooted to deliver on the
change agenda of the present administration.
“At the moment, it must be crystal clear to all discerning
minds that the President’s widely-acclaimed magical body language has
lost its presumed aura and efficacy. His no-nonsense demeanor is equally
neither instilling fear nor commanding respect and loyalty from among
his cabinet members.
“It is therefore obvious that the time for barking is over; now
is the time to bite and boot out all those who have demonstrated, in
the past several months, a crass lack of capacity to effectively carry
out the functions of their office,” Melaye said.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory,
also condemned Buhari’s economic team led by Vice President, Yemi
Osibanjo, saying that “their decisions will not be and has never been respected by the economic managers and the bureaucracy in Nigeria.”
The lawmaker urged the President to, instead, constitute an
‘Emergency Ad Hoc Economic Team’ made up of all former ministers of
finance, ex-ministers of budget and national planning, ex-CBN governors
as well as members drawn from the academia with “deep knowledge of developmental economics to drive the economic revival programme.”
“The President must immediately transit from mere rhetoric to
drastic but positive action to save the economy and Nigeria from total
collapse. The hunger in the land is real, pervasive, widespread and
debilitating for the poor masses.
“As I walk the streets of my constituency these days, I
constantly harbour a foreboding that I could be stoned by my angry
constituents for the failure of Mr. President to fulfill his campaign
promises and expectations to Nigerians.
“Nigeria is tottering on a dangerous precipice, sliding
perilously to a certain catastrophe if the current economic malaise is
not halted immediately,” he said.
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