The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, yesterday, said the current insecurity challenges in the country were not the creation of Federal Government, but local politicians that felt Nigeria belong to them.
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The minister said they caused crises to discredit Jonathan's administration and that in spite of that, the government had made tremendous progress in all sectors of the economy in the last three years.
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Maku, who stated this during a world press conference to review Federal Government's achievements in 2013 in Abuja, noted that those criticising government were doing so because of their ambitions for the 2015 general election.
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According to him, government has been able to manage the economy in spite of the economic meltdown in the world economy.
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He further said the present administration, In spite of political denials, had been able to developed people- oriented economy, with the highest Gross Domestic Growth, GDP, recorded consecutively in the past three years.
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The minister maintained that the government had ensured stability in the exchange rate, low inflation rate and high economic growth, due to proper management of the economy.
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This, according to him, had made Nigeria the highest receiver of foreign investment in the continent.
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Maku said: "Nigeria's GDP is one of the fastest growing in the world. Growth rate in 2013 was put at 7.2 per cent by International Monetary Fund, IMF.
Not so many people will need an explaination because it can be a very tricky year for some top teams.
We don't even want to know who caused this secirity challenegs but to create solutions that will end it once and for all.
This is just terrible. Why will anyone think Nigeria belongs to him or her? What could've brought that thought?
Then who? who is in control? who runs Nigeria? they must be joking. Yes they are jokerz
Security challenges just kep popping up from all over the country, we don't want to know who caused it we just want a solution.