Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign, says the APC-led regime of President Muhammadu Buhari failed to deliver on its campaign promise to provide “students loan” because the PDP plunged Nigeria into recession.
Bola Tinubu, who is now the party’s presidential candidate for 2023, had in a 2014 Lagos rally promised that the APC government would offer “student loan” if elected.
Asked in an interview with Channels TV on Friday why the party failed to deliver on the promise seven years down the line, Mr Keyamo blamed the Peoples Democratic Party for handing over a bad economy to the APC.
“In 2014, no less a person than Okonjo-Iweala, who was then Minister of Finance, told everyone that we are headed to recession. So we did not give that excuse, it was the PDP government that said at the time they were leaving that the country was on a downward slide towards recession and that was in 2013 and 2014,” Mr…
