By Ochogwu Sunday A former Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, says the present economic indicators show that the nation’s ec...
By Ochogwu Sunday
A former Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, says the
present economic indicators show that the nation’s economy is beginning to make
a recovery and an obvious turnaround is now clearly observable.
Okupe, a former Director-General of the Peter Obi
Presidential Campaign Organisation, made this remark in an interview with NAN
on Thursday in Lagos.
He was reacting to the criticism of President Bola Tinubu by
Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, over the socio-economic
challenges in the country.
NAN reports that Afenifere had expressed concern on
Wednesday about what it described as the near collapse of the economy.
The Yoruba group expressed the concern in a communique
issued at the end of its quarterly meeting in Ogun.
In the communique, signed by its Deputy Leader, Chief
Oladipo Olaitan, and Deputy Secretary-General, Mr Alade Rotimi-John, the group
said the state of the economy had left the people perplexed with hardship.
Reacting, Okupe said Afenifere spoke well about the current
socio-economic challenges, but its response was belated.
“It is commendable that Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba
socio-cultural organisation and now political group, has always lived to its
nationalistic stance.
“This is done by criticising the government of the day even
though a Yoruba man, Asiwaju Tinubu, is the current president of the country.
“This is one of the outstanding and commendable attributes
of the Yoruba people as a race and Afenifere has been consistent in this
patriotic display of true nationalism.
“However, while it is true that the country and its citizens
are undergoing very harsh socio-economic conditions, principally because of
strong and brave economic policies put in place to correct the economic
quagmire brought on the country by the previous administration’s economic
indicators show that the economy is beginning to make a recovery and an obvious
turn around is now clearly observable,” Okupe said.
According to him, all hands must now be on deck to support
the administration to succeed in its efforts to revamp the economy
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