Why Nigeria’s Economy Is Broken’ – Timipre Sylva

Mr Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has claimed current economic woes faced by Nigeria started durring Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The former Bayelsa governor stated this during his aappearance on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“What we inherited is like broken China (plate),” he said when asked about the state of the economy. “Somebody broke the China and arranged it very well on the table as if it was not broken.

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“So, you came into the room, and you thought there was a China on the table and you tried to pick it up, and it just fell into pieces in your hands; who broke it, is it you or was it already broken?

“That was the kind of economy we inherited; we inherited an economy that was already broken. We tried to pick up the economy and it scattered in our hands.”