The Economist’s report vindicates Atiku – Campaign team

The Atiku Campaign Organisation has said the report of the Economist magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit has vindicated his stand against the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement emanating from the campaign organization of the former vice president yesterday noted that “The Economist Magazine has exposed the incumbent Nigerian government for the failure that it is.” Continuing, the statement reads: “We find it amusing that an All Progressives Congress and a Buhari campaign that once celebrated The Economist Magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in 2015 when they declared that Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress were projected to win the 2015 elections, have today denounced the same Economist Intelligence Unit of the magazine for projecting victory for the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections.
“This is symptomatic of the double standards of the Buhari regime and its APC vehicle.
Nigerians are used to them treating suspected corruption by opposition members as proven cases while waving away confirmed cases of corruption, even reaching all the way to the Presidential Villa, with a wave of the hand.
“And now, they have extended their duplicity to The Economist Magazine which is the world’s premier economics focused publication.
How can the APC and the Buhari administration tell Nigerians to “disregard these expert analysis and prophesied for what they are and dismiss them accordingly”? “Do they want Nigerians to disregard the fact that a parastatal under the Buhari government, the National Bureau of Statistics, published last December that 7.9 million Nigerians lost their jobs in the 21 months period under review? “Do they want Nigerians to disregard the fact that Transparency International has declared that Nigeria is more corrupt today than it was under the PDP and has moved 12 places backward in the Corruption Perception Index, from 136 in 2014 to 148 this year? “Do they want Nigerians to disregard the fact that the Global Terrorism Index revealed that Nigeria is more terrorised and insecure today than she was in 2014 going from fourth most terrorised nation to being the third most terrorised nation in the latest rankings? “Do they want Nigerians to disregard the fact that the value of the Naira has collapsed, going from N199 to $1 in 2015 under the PDP to N365 to $1 today and being named by Bloomberg as the fourth worst performing currency in the world under Buhari? “Even if the Buhari administration claims that The Economist made a mistake, did HSBC, the world’s largest bank, make a mistake in adjudging the continuation of the Buhari government beyond 2019 as an economic disaster for Nigeria in the making? That these two economic giants independently arrived at the same conclusion is damning.
“The truth is that Nigerians do not even need The Economist Magazine’s Economist Intelligence Unit to tell them that this administration has failed and that it will be voted out.