At 56, Nigeria is where she ought to be, says Presidency
Ita-Enag
• Nation Not In Recession, Just Undergoing Oil Recession
The Presidency announced yesterday that Nigeria is the place it should be at 56 years old. It additionally said that the nation was at that point out of subsidence even as it conceded that there were still difficult issues in the oil part. In a meeting with columnists in Abuja, yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Solomon Ita-Enag clarified that given the difficulties of retreat, the nation is not in subsidence but rather experiencing oil subsidence since we have neglected to build up each different parts of the economy.
Ita-Enag said: "I hold the feeling that we are the place we should be right now. Given the difficulties of retreat, I hold the perspective that Nigeria is not in financial subsidence in undeniable reality, it is experiencing oil subsidence on the grounds that each other segment of the economy which should have been produced were not created in due time thus those same parts is the thing that we need to grew now; strong minerals, farming, innovation and the scholarly capital, along these lines, we are the place we should be.
"I need Nigeria to commend that this subsidence is coming at such a critical time and Nigeria is not as hit as different nations of the world. When you see what is going on in Saudi Arabia and other oil rich nations and where they are and I believe Nigeria's position is a smidgen better. What's more, I need to likewise say that it is a gift when you have challenges since it is those difficulties that draws out the best potential in man.
"The test of the retreat we are currently, which I called oil subsidence, ought to give us a chance to test ourselves to create different possibilities in horticulture and now to send out".
He included that the waning oil cost in the worldwide business sector calls for festivity by Nigerians, focusing on that progressive governments ought to have made utilization of the chance to create different areas of the economy.
"The test of the lessening oil cost ought to likewise be a festival for us. We ought to accept it as open door for us to create different areas of the economy.
"I need us to recollect that coal was essential in this nation in the 60s and mid 70s and when coal stopped to be critical, we proceeded onward to oil and we didn't petition God for coal to recoup and get to be vital, everything we did was to misuse different segments of the economy.
"We ought to endeavor every one of those different parts of the economy, essentially and imperatively strong minerals. In any case, all the more significantly, agribusiness, in light of the fact that with horticulture we needn't bother with a great deal of remote speculation on the grounds that the area is there," he said.
On Emergency Powers Bill, the Senior Special Assistant said he couldn't talk in regards to it at the same time, when the bill comes, it would be conveyed on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives.
"When it is imparted you will hear it on the floor thus I don't talk unless it is perused and I am just mindful when it is perused by the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives."
On the offer of national resources, Ita-Enag noticed that he just depended on the expressions of the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo-Udoma and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that the proposed deal are minor hypotheses, including that they consider the National Assembly important for dismissing the offer of national resources.
"I am not mindful of the subtle elements where government has proposed to offer national resources and I depend on the words given by Senator Udo-Udoma that there is no proposition. I likewise depended on the words given by the Minister of Information that these are all in the domain of hypotheses. We take the Senate and National Assembly truly. We don't argue at it and what they say is conveyed and we regard the Senate since Nigerians ought to likewise realize that the National Assembly individuals are the general population who will support what you will do.
"The topic of benefits will just emerge when the financing things of different spending plans are submitted thus you will see that nothing by the official would be done illegal. We wouldn't have any desire to dive into insights about it," he said.
In any case, Senate President, Bukola Saraki encouraged Nigerians from varying backgrounds to work together with the Federal Government keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee the country rose up out of the current monetary subsidence more grounded, more joined together, created and confident. Saraki in his message to stamp the country's 56th Independence Anniversary, marked by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, additionally lauded all Nigerians, particularly the country's establishing fathers, for their commitments that have deflected debacle for the country at each point her presence is undermined by social, political and financial issues.
While communicating laments that in her 56 years of presence, Nigeria's economy still relies on upon just oil, a circumstance which made the present monetary issues being experienced by the citizenry, the Senate President praised Nigerians for their diligence, comprehension and backing despite the cruel financial condition.
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