The Bola Tinubu administration has cautioned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against negative assumptions about the economy in the face of the various positive reforms instituted by the administration....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, stated this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
He said that the claims by Atiku on the decisions taken at the last meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the state governors was misconstrued and not a true representation of what transpired.
Onanuga said that the PDP presidential candidate also failed to prescribe a better policy option to what the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, and his team are executing at the apex bank.
“First of all, it was not true that President Tinubu’s meeting last Thursday with the 36 State Governors was centred on discussing foreign exchange crisis and currency fluctuation.
“What was discussed in the main was food supply and how to drastically reduce the food prices. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, gave a briefing about the meeting, revealing the highlights to State House Correspondents,” he said.
Onanuga said that the meeting established a nexus between the state of security and the rising cost of food as well as how hoarders are warehousing food, creating artificial scarcity and creating high cost of food items.
He explained that the meeting dwelled on how the Forest rangers are to be strengthened and armed, while police are to recruit more men and the National Economic Council to deepen discussions about creating state police…CONTINUE READING>>
