Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra state, says President Bola Tinubu did not cause the country’s economic hardship.
Soludo spoke on Wednesday during The Platform, a national
conversation organised by Poju Oyemade, senior pastor of the Covenant Christian
Centre, to mark 2024 Democracy Day.
The Anambra governor said the country is suffering from the
accumulated poor actions and inactions of successive administrations since
1999.
“President Tinubu did not cause the problem, it took more
than 10 years of living in denial and kicking the can down the road to get to
this predictable sorry state. We are now suffering the consequences of what I
call delayed and misguided adjustments from a macroeconomic standpoint of the
economy,” Soludo said.
He noted that Tinubu has “the historic duty to mobilise
Nigerians to clean up the mess for future generations”.
“Nigeria faces a fiscal quagmire and even technical solvency
problems. Debt has piled up to a level that leaves little headroom for more
borrowing, albeit at a very high cost,” he said.
“Yet, the needs of the citizens keep increasing in geometric
proportion by the day.”
Soludo warned that printing more money would lead to
spiralling inflation.
The governor charged Nigerians to support Tinubu to change
the country for good.
Soludo also backed the proposed single term of six years for
elected officeholders, adding that any form of autonomy for LGAs in the country
is against the tenets of true federalism.
“Sometimes, these conversations about single term might
begin to make some sense so that you fix it, whether you say four years or five
years, six years or seven years, single term,” he said.
“So, you are not
thinking about the next election once you finish getting into this.
“I face that all day in my state. You want to get into this
project; they say, ‘no, wait, you know you have an election’.
“And I say, ‘no, let’s get it; if we get there, we get
there, and if we lose, we lose.”
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