The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru has said President Bola Tinubu’s priority is to make Nigeria a productive economy.
Basiru said that dishing out palliatives was not Tinubu’s end game but simply a means to provide a temporary cushion to the financially challenged.
He explained that the president is trying to make sure the economy becomes a productive one rather than just consuming imported products.
Speaking during a reception organised in his honour by the APC caucus in the Osogbo federal constituency on Saturday held at Freedom Park, Osogbo, the party’s national scribe said the price of the fuel product would soon stabilise and Nigerians would enjoy the benefit inherent in President Tinubu’s economic policies.
His words; “Deregulation of the petroleum sector is the right thing to do and I believe in a matter of time, when fuel price stabilizes and then, the Nigerian people would be able to get the benefits accruable from the savings which can now be used to develop our economy.
The palliative is not the end game, the end game is to revive our economy and get us back into productive economy that will ensure the welfare of the people. Palliative is a temporary measure and we believe that this is a federation, the state governments should be in the position to deliver those palliatives to the people.”
