Nigeria’s finance minister, Kemi Adeosun can’t run away from her insensitive ‘recession is a word’ comment to Nigerians who are suffering untold hardship under the Muhammadu Buhari regime.
Adeosun came under fire for a tweet containing, what as turned out to be, her catch phrase for addressing the downturn of the Nigerian economy under her mantle.
She was forced to deny her own Twitter handle following the backlash from the main opposition party in the country, the PDP, citizens, and the media.
The Twitter account, up until Thursday, was denoted as the “official Twitter account of the Minister of Finance of Nigeria”. That description has been removed just before the press statement by Adeosun’s media adviser, Festus Akanbi denying her ownership of the account.
Akanbi’s statement also said that the finance minister never used that phrase, on Twitter or anywhere else. “Also at no time did the honourable minister, who addressed the media immediately after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, make such a statement,” he said.
But, it turns out that she’s been using the phrase to explain away the current recession, the worst in 29 years of Nigeria, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
An Oak TV video hosted on YouTube shows Madam Minister repeating the phrase, ‘recession is a word’ in a federal government town hall meeting.
You may watch the video below. She says ‘recession is a word’ around the 4.20 to 4.25 of the video:
