The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a directive to the Statistician General of Nigeria, Mr. Yemi Kale, to change the data on unemployment in the country and create impression of massive job creation by his administration.
The party in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said such was corruption.
“In this desperation, the Buhari Presidency is now trying to force the Statistician General of Nigeria to alter genuine data and smuggle in fictitious employment figures.
“Our party holds that the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is a professional body, insulated from government interferences, with statutory responsibility to compute credible and verifiable data and statistics for national planning.
“The PDP is therefore shocked at this attempt by the Buhari Presidency to corrupt our system through the falsification of employment statistics just to shore up its failed economic policies that have brought untold hardship on the Nigerian people.
“Nigerians can now see why the Buhari Presidency has deliberately starved the NBS of funds; to prevent it from conducting surveys and releasing further data that highlight the failures of the APC administration.
“We therefore call on the Statistician General not to succumb to the blackmail of the Buhari Presidency but remain on the path of truth and facts, in the course of his duty,” the PDP said.
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