Economy : PBAT’s Reforms Yielding Results – Alake

Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake says reforms of the President Bola Tinubu administration have started manifesting in the resurgence of the nation’s economy.

Dr. Alake stated when he hosted a delegation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Professionals Forum led by former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, in Abuja.

Alake stressed that President Tinubu’s progressive leadership and courage in taking difficult decisions is turning the tide, is putting the economy on a strong footing.

“The President has chosen to leave a legacy of taking difficult decisions that will herald enduring structures that will not only outlast the administration but also make it impossible for successive administrations to deviate from”,he added.

“The society would have become used to a certain standard of service delivery at the end of the Tinubu administration that Nigerians will no more settle for anything less” Alake affirmed.

According to the Minister, the temporary pains of the reforms are beginning to ease, citing the resurgence of the naira and emerging stability in the forex market.

The Minister highlighted the administration’s efforts towards infrastructural renewal, which will shorten travel time of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road on completion.

“On completion of that coastal road, the amount of tourism that will be generated along that axis is unimaginable. It will be one of the longest tourism coast town drive in Africa, not to talk of the ease of movement of goods and services; the economic impact of ports along the route, and it will finally link up to Sokoto – a project which has been in the pipeline for more than 30 years”, Alake emphasized.

The Minister urged the forum as a repository of knowledge and diverse professionals within the APC to contribute their quota to the success of the administration, reiterating that the APC-led Federal Government is open to innovative ideas in its quest to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians through the Renewed Hope Agenda.

In his remarks, the leader of the Forum and former governor of Bauchi state, Mallam Isa Yuguda commended the Minister for his efforts in sanitizing and attracting global attention to the mining sector, emphasising that solid minerals remains the key to Nigeria’s economic prosperity.

Mallam Yuguda urged Nigerians and the federal government to support Dr. Alake with all that is required to transform the mining sector, stressing that solid minerals have all it takes to overtake oil as the mainstream of the nation’s economy.

Throwing light on the mission of the APC professionals forum, Yuguda stated that the group is a foremost group of patriotic professionals in diverse fields committed to nation building.

He assured that the forum would lead enlightenment of the populace on government programmes and also advance suggestions, where necessary.

On the entourage of Isa Yuguda were the former deputy governor of Adamawa State and member of the Forum’s Board of Trustees (BOT), James Ngilari; former Deputy Governor of Anambra state and Vice-Chairman BOT, Dr. Nkem Okeke; the Secretary, Akeem Akintayo amongst others.

By Georgina Humphrey, Edited By Grace Namiji