Kaduna Central Senator-elect, Shehu Sani, has likened the running of the country under Jonathan to that of a “come and chop restaurant”.

Sani spoke while receiving the Kaduna state executive of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, who visited him in his office in Kaduna, over the weekend.

He lamented that in spite of the un-bundling of the PHCN under the outgoing administration, the power sector remains comatose and Nigerians have experienced less and less electricity by the day. Power supply from the grid has slipped to as low as 2,300mw.

“The sale of PHCN has not translated into consistent electric power in our homes, in our offices , in our markets and in our work places,” Sani said.  He also questioned the last minute sales of government assets under President Jonathan.

“The last minute-sale of NITEL to a private firm at a time when the government is supposed to be preparing notes for handover is also suspicious or irrelevant at this time”.

Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi-Okonjo Iweala, was carpeted as well for not translating paper economics to the economics of the street.

“They claim progressive economic statistics on paper while our people continue to suffer in abject poverty, want and penury.

“All the economic indicators that have been churned out by the Jonathan administration is in direct conflict with the reality of the situation on ground as far as Nigeria is concerned.

“Most of our industries have closed down, the value of our naira has crashed and many people are out of job and the claim of thousands of jobs created by the government is suspect and simply on paper. This is also an issue we have to look at in the incoming administration”, the activist turned politician, said.

He added that the government of Jonathan was “literally a political restaurant whereby people are invited to come and feed.That is why President Jonathan is saying that those who decamped from PDP to APC will come back with empty stomach.

“The idea of governance under Jonathan is about people using the opportunity of being in office to service themselves and their immediate families.

“The bickering in the PDP after the failed elections are simply nothing but pants of death of a party that has inflicted serious hardship on Nigerians in the last 16 years.”