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Presidential Aide on Media, Femi Adesina, in a recent interview has replied critics of President Muhammadu Buhari's alleged lack of a clearly defined economic direction for Nigeria.
Here are excerpts from the interview:
Q: Again, does this nation have a clearly defined economic policy direction?
A: Now, let me illustrate with this, you have a government in which the number 2 man, the vice president heads the economic team, the finance minister, Trade and finance minister, Minister for budget and National planning, Central Bank governor, Economic Adviser to the president, and yet people still keep asking for an economic team? What else do they need?
Q: The economic direction is what Nigerians are asking for?
A: Yes, are they not the people that will fashion out the direction?
Q: We want the direction and the average Nigerian doesn’t want to know the people in the team but where we are headed to as a nation?
A: It is clear were we are headed to as a nation and those people manning the economy will tell you where we are headed. I am not an economist but I know that the direction in which they are headed is that there are luxuries that we cannot continue to indulge in, those luxuries are being weeded out. Essential forex is being warehoused and saved in the real sector for more productive usage.
Here are excerpts from the interview:
Q: Again, does this nation have a clearly defined economic policy direction?
A: Now, let me illustrate with this, you have a government in which the number 2 man, the vice president heads the economic team, the finance minister, Trade and finance minister, Minister for budget and National planning, Central Bank governor, Economic Adviser to the president, and yet people still keep asking for an economic team? What else do they need?
Q: The economic direction is what Nigerians are asking for?
A: Yes, are they not the people that will fashion out the direction?
Q: We want the direction and the average Nigerian doesn’t want to know the people in the team but where we are headed to as a nation?
A: It is clear were we are headed to as a nation and those people manning the economy will tell you where we are headed. I am not an economist but I know that the direction in which they are headed is that there are luxuries that we cannot continue to indulge in, those luxuries are being weeded out. Essential forex is being warehoused and saved in the real sector for more productive usage.
