Economy: You're blind, Buhari blasts critics

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday blasted those criticising his administration on economy, saying they are wilfully blind.

Buhari, in a statement by his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, said only "the wilfully blind" would not see the facts on the economy.

He said some people had made it a pastime to talk as if there was no silver lining in the sky as far as the economy was concerned. 

"They carry on as if it is doom and gloom all the way, a thoroughfare of woes. This they do, to hoodwink the public, and peradventure gain political advantage for themselves, or their principals."

"But facts are stubborn things.Those arrayed against facts may abhor and deride them, but there they are, staring them starkly in the face," Adesina said.

He recalled that on exiting recession last year, Buhari had said he would not consider the job done, until the ordinary man felt the impact of the rebounding economy on his life and pocket. 

"We are inexorably on that road, no matter what scoffers may say," the presidential spokesman said.