The federal government through the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Abubakar, has called on the organisers of the proposed protest to shelve the idea and come to a roundtable to dialogue with the Federal Government.
Abubakar, who made the call yesterday, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Director of Information and Public Relations, Henshaw Ogubike, said President Bola Tinubu’s reforms as enshrined in the Renewed Hope Agenda, have started yielding remarkable results just as the country’s economy is on a gradual but steady path of recovery.
The minister identified some of the yielding reforms introduced by the President to include, introduction of the Nigerian Student Loan Scheme; innovation of selling crude oil to indigenous refining companies in naira; the signing of the National Minimum Wage Act into law; granting total autonomy to the local governments, massive increase in funding for infrastructure, alongside social security intervention to states, post-subsidy removal presidential grant and loans schemes amongst others.
He maintained that establishment of the aforementioned reforms and host of others are all efforts at stabilising the economy, assuring Nigerians that President Tinubu’s administration will do more to meet their needs.