UPP chairman berates Buhari over economy

·          Describes President Buhari's administration as a failure

·        Promises that UPP’ll focus on restructuring in 2019

Chief Chekwas Okorie who is the chairman of the United Progressives Party (UPP) has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari for the handling of the country’s economy.

Chief Chekwas Okorie, UPP National Chairman

Vanguard reports that Okorie spoke on Tuesday, January 3 when he received Ralph Uwazuruike who is the leader of the Biafra Independence Movement in Owerri, Imo state.

The UPP leader said Buhari apparently did not prepare for governance which was why he has been unable to manage the country well.

He said: “It is a very sad commentary that Nigerians are passing through very harsh times and this is principally midwifed by the fact that President Buhari did not prepare for governance before stepping into office.”

“From what we have seen so far, it appears that President Buhari’s primary motive was simply to win the presidential election”.

Okorie noted that so many government parastatals were underperforming and lamented that it took the president a long time to roll out his ministers.

“Another good example of the President’s bad approach to governance is the issue of the Niger Delta upheaval. He didn’t manage it well. He came on board with the jackboot mentality over the matter and of course, he failed”

He said his party will focus on restructuring in 2019. And lashed at Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on how pensioners were being treated in the state.

 “UPP will bring the recommendations of the recent National Conference to the front burner. Already, we have set up a committee to look at the document. UPP will make it an issue during the 2019 election campaign”

“Governor Rochas Okorocha is a very big embarrassment to Ndigbo. He has messed up Imo State. He is worried about the deafening lamentation of the citizenry and it does not appear that he wants to change his obnoxious style”.

“The way Chief Okorocha has been treating pensioners, to say the least, is most shocking. To Imo people, 2019 appears to be eternity. The worst thing that can happen is for any right thinking Imo citizen to vote for All Progressives Congress, APC, or any stooge Okorocha brings up.”