The Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Chika Onuegbu, has blamed the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari for the economic hardship the country is currently facing.
He said that the ineptitude of the present administration had exposed the country to numerous social and economic problems, for which the government keeps on pointing accusing fingers to past administrations.
Onuegbu made the accusations in Port Harcourt at the weekend, while speaking to journalists on the state of the nation’s economy.
He explained that the present administration was actually not prepared to rule the country, given what is currently playing out in the system.
The TUC leader said that all the promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari and his team during his campaign in 2014 had not been fulfilled.
He pointed out that the unemployment level in the country was soaring high, exchange rate continuously rising against the Naira, while insecurity in the country kept on increasing.
“In 2014, President Buhari and his team made several promises to the people, and have not yet fulfilled those promises. Look at the exchange rate, the unemployment level and the security situation in the country, everything rising higher and higher.
“They said they did not cause the problems, and they don’t take responsibility to fix the deteriorating economy, and every now and then, you hear the same thing, and this has shown the ineptitude of the present administration in governance of this nation”, he said.
The former TUC chairman in Rivers State, however, warned that the country may be heading towards a serious crisis in the next 10 years if things continue to go this way without being corrected.
He also urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to keep on pursuing its action to save the Nigerian education system from collapsing, in the face of government’s unwillingness  to keep to its agreement.

By: Corlins Walter