Buhari Denying NBS Funds To Hide Unemployment Figures – Atiku

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of deliberately denying the National Bureau of Statistics funds to perform its essential service.

Atiku, in a statement by his campaign group, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, made the claim in reaction to an alleged statement by Statistician-General of the Federation, Mr. Yemi Kale, who said the unemployment report has not provided because the NBS had no funds.

Atiku claimed that the present administration plan was to hide the nation’s unemployment figure.

The statement read, “Throughout the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party governed this nation, their various governments never took this route, but funded the NBS to perform its statutory duty.

“We know for a fact that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is in a state of panic because of the unprecedented unemployment numbers in Nigeria and is desperate to hide that information from the public.

“If the Buhari administration can afford N1.1bn to fumigate the office of the National Security Adviser, if they can afford ₦3.5mevery 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.