…As naira falls further to N1160/$ at black market
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged to restore the countrys economy despite a myriad of challenges affecting its growth.
According to a statement issued yesterday by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, the President stated this to an audience with a group of devout South-West Muslims led by Rasaki Oladejo on Friday, in Abuja.
Tinubu said the current challenges facing the nation were only temporary, assuring Nigerians that better days were in the offing.
We have to believe in one country; we have to believe in Nigeria. We will do our best, and our economy will get better for the benefit of Nigerians. I am very sure of that; and we are putting in the work to ensure that, Tinubu assured.
He also stated that the goals of his administrations policies and programmes were to create a society where hard labour would be rewarded and indolence would bear little fruit – one that was fairer, better, and honest.
It is about our future. We must guarantee our future. Almighty Allah will not give us a burden that we cannot bear. He has put us here for a purpose. It may look difficult; even rough, but it will get better. We avoided it (removing petroleum subsidy) for 40 years. We are all going through the pain now, but for Nigeria not to collapse, we had to remove the subsidy.
In the history of successful nations, there is nothing more vital than the leadership of a nation taking difficult decisions at the right time and for the right reasons. There would have been no money for the sub-nationals, the President emphasised.
