Senator Gershom Bassey the Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum, Upstream represents Cross River South Senatorial District, In an interview with Vanguard, says the All Progressives Congress-led federal government has shrunk a robust economy which was the largest in Africa before 2015.
His words, "Well, look, APC inherited the largest economy in Africa, today we are no longer the largest economy in Africa.
"You can give whatever reasons that you like, but it is incumbent on the APC to ensure with all its election promises that we return and surpass the level we are now.
"It is not as large as it was when the APC met it. I have seen their recovery plan, so, I expect that the APC has to do everything in their power, to ensure that they return Nigeria to be the largest economy in Africa.
"I don’t want to go into details. They were bequeathed with a large economy; they should return us not the same size but the largest economy in Africa, it should be even bigger than the one they met.
