President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged the statistics suggesting that the economy took a downward move when he took over government in 2015.
President Buhari said this in an exclusive interview on various issues with Channels Television, aired on Wednesday night.
He was asked by the interviewer that one would wonder where the Nation was when he took over office in 2015.
The interviewer said: “Debt stock at the time was about N12 trillion.
“Now it is about N32 trillion.
“Inflation rate was about 9 per cent.
“It is now sitting over about 15 per cent.
“Unemployment rate was about 8.19 per cent.
“It is now 33.28 per cent.
“Exchange rate was about N197 to a dollar.
“It is way over N400 to a dollar.
“So people would look back economically speaking and say before you took over office, some of these indicators were fair and now the figures are not friendly at all.”
Responding, the President said: “Well, I am not sure how correct your calculations are but all I know is that we have to allow people to get access to the farm.
“We just have to go back to the land.
“What we have done so far, we have achieved some successes and people ought to measure our successes viz-a-viz the problems when we started.”