Jonathan’s claim on economy

when former President Goodluck Jonathan claimed that Nigeria’s economy grew under his watch and that Nigerians were better off in nearly all economic indices, this was no idle assertion and there is cause to agree with him fully.

The simple reason that buttresses this agreement is the fact of that the word called “recession” was not in the national consciousness prior to the end of President Jonathan’s tenure in 2015.

When “recession” becomes part of the national dialogue, it can only mean that the nation was just coming out of an era of economic prosperity and now entering into economic slowdown with its attendant consequences of job losses, inflation, broken promises, and general degradation in standards of living.

The fact of job losses alone goes a long way to tell everyone that the government that held forte prior to the period of onset of recession did well in many fronts indeed. I think this is the point that Jonathan made in his speech at the PDP convention recently held at Eagle Square, Abuja.

It does not do the moral position of the present government any good to try to colour the previous PDP government as “corrupt” whereas the Jonathan team ensured material prosperity for Nigerians.

• Sunday Jonah

Minna, Niger State.