#LetsBlameGEJ: Ben Bruce Responds To Lai Mohammed

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has reacted to the recent statement made by Lai Mohammed, the minister of information, blaming former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for the present fuel scarcity.

Are we going to be told Jonathan is responsible for harmattan? Ben Murray-Bruce wandered.

Briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council, the minister said that Nigerians are paying for the sins of the last administration.

In a swift reaction, the chairman of Silverbird Group took to his Twitter handle to express indignation and discontent.

Ben-Bruce wandered why the federal government did not commend Jonathan in June, when electricity improved, but now when there’s fuel scarcity, it blames the ex-president.

He called on the APC-led government to follow the example of President Barack Obama who inherited the worst economy ever but succeeded in reducing unemployment and petrol prices without blaming his predecessor.

Earlier this year, Senator from Bayelsa state advised President Muhammdu Buhari to borrow N50trn and develop Nigeria ‘overnight’. According to him, Nigeria’s “piecemeal” borrowing would not achieve the needful development.