The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of hiding the nation’s unemployment data.

Atiku in a statement on Thursday by his Presidential Campaign Organisation said the Buhari administration had “failed” to provide the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) the funds it needed to perform its functions.


The former Vice President said the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was in panic mode because of the “unprecedented unemployment numbers” in the country and desperate to hide that information from the public ahead of the 2019 general elections.

“We notes with dismay the testimony of the Statistician General of the Federation, Mr. Yemi Kale, that the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is unable to release the annual unemployment report that it is mandated by law to produce, because the Buhari administration has not provided the NBS with the funds it needs to perform this essential service.



“If the Buhari administration can afford ₦1.1 billion to fumigate the office of the National Security Adviser, if they can afford ₦35 million every month to feed Ibrahim El Zakzaky, then they can afford to release funds for the NBS to perform its statutory duty of releasing the nation’s job report.

“President Buhari promised to create three million jobs per annum during the 2015 presidential campaign season, but has ended up losing over three million jobs every year since he was sworn in on May 29, 2015.

“Since the Buhari administration came to being, 11 million Nigerians have lost their jobs and in December of 2017, the NBS under Yemi Kale, announced that 7.9 million Nigerians lost their jobs in the 21 months period under review.

“It is safe to draw the conclusion that if the NBS had been funded and able to release the now due 2018 job reports, the total figure of jobs lost under the present administration may climb higher than the present 11 million jobs.

“Thus, we can understand why this failed administration is desperate to cover that information up, however, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation insists that Nigerians deserve to know the truth no matter how unpalatable it may be,” Atiku said.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/president-buhari-hiding-unemployment-data-because-of-2019-elections-atiku.html

1. If You stay at Home to hussle as a Young Man Buhari will call you a Lazy Nigerian youth even though his Son is has never worked but drives a Power bike that cost Millions of naira

2. If you go abroad to forget this torment and better the lot of your family the man will call you a criminal and plead for your deportation.

3. They promised 3 million jobs per annum but 11 million of our brothers and sisters who had jobs when they took over a thriving economy are now jobless

May God Help Us to help ourselves in 2019

BUHARI DON'T REALLY WANT NIGERIANS TO BE FREE.BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW THE TRUTH SO WE ARE FREE.

I laugh again
I just tire for this Country, saw this news on bloomberg thought it was a joke.....


Anyway, APC still have die hard fans, won't pity the ones gaining from the govt but the very illiterate ones , mind you having a degree doesn't make you literate ..

And when the unemployed nigerians travel abroad to seek for greener pastures buhari will rush there and be calling Nigerians criminals in other to discourage foreign employers from employing them.All juicy jobs have been allocated to northerners at the detriment of other more qualify regions of the country.
But I still doubt atiku's integrity.Two northern desperate brothers can say anything to brainwash the weak heart.

Is Atiku trying to be funny or what.

Do you expect a man who couldn't divulge his state of health - even when it was obvious that he was on his death bed - to put publish something that would end up mocking him?

they will start shouting NPOWER.

You can achieve many things but you cannot run a government on propaganda. It is the most lazy thing to do

If you're unemployed and still supports this buhari useless governement, you're a fool forever.

2015 scam should not be repeated

He's only hiding it from his braindead supporters... Those who have sense actually know d realities we are facing

Only Zombies still support the dullard.

Lol...

99% of Nairaland zombies are unemployed.
Zombiesm is not a full time job. It's high time we tell ourselves the truth... None of the zombies on Nairaland is receiving 30k from either buhari or APC.
They just choose to do this job out of sheer stupidity and laziness.
Time, they say is money... Imagine someone wasting every second and minutes of his life on Nairaland defending a certain Sudanese dullard.
They are the ones they dullard refer to as 'lazy youths'.
SMH for this people!