Tanimu Yakubu: Widespread Poverty, Hardship Can’t Be Blamed on Tinubu’s Economic Reforms
• Says reforms are addressing structural weaknesses • Insists inherited poverty is not a product of Tinubu’s reforms James Emejo in Abuja The Director-General of the Budget Office of the
The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Tanimu Yakubu, has stated that widespread poverty and hardship in Nigeria cannot be blamed on the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu's administration. Yakubu emphasized that Nigeria faced deep-rooted economic weaknesses, such as low productivity, foreign exchange distortions, fiscal leakages, and unreliable power supply, when it embarked on the reform journey.
He urged against attributing the country's poverty crisis to the reforms, emphasizing that the issues causing poverty existed before the reforms were implemented.
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