Buhari handed a sick economy to president Tinubu — Oshiomhole
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Adams Oshiomole
Former governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole has accused the past administration of president Muhammadu Buhari of handing over a sick economy to his predecessor, president Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Oshiomhole who is a member representing Edo North at the National Assembly stated this during an interview with newsmen after his meeting with the Vice President, Mr Kashim Shettima on Tuesday.
He noted that some of the decisions taken by the Tinubu’s administration are the first step taken to revamp the crumbling economy.
He further added that President Tinubu had shown courage and determination to end the corruption of the subsidy regime and in the Central Bank of Nigeria—CBN, while appealing to Nigerians to be patient.
He said, “This president recognizes that the effect of the withdrawal is already here, people are already going through some level of discomfort and therefore there has to be an immediate solution to it.
“Now that immediate solution is what we discussed and the fact that we are meeting on Tuesday again shows that clearly, we realize that this is not one of those things you want to buy time because it has a real negative impact, on particularly, the most vulnerable group.
“But we have a solution to it because you are going to make savings, so take from that savings or even if it is borrowing.
“So, whatever it is, you can leverage some revenue and improve wages to cushion the cost of living, I think it is legitimate, I think it is doable, it is not something that you want to spend two to three months negotiating,” he said.
Meanwhile, Oshiomhole was part of a meeting between the Federal Government and the Trade Union Congress—TUC on Sunday.
Oshiomhole said the meeting was productive, adding that the government will consider all the demands by the TUC and revert on Tuesday.
He said that if Nigeria can save about N7 trillion by ending subsidy, the Federal Government can take part of that money and put in the wage sector “because those savings will go into the federation account which will be distributed among the three tiers of government and so every tier of government will have more money and should be able to meet the consequential increase in wages.”
