The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, has stated the reforms of President Bola Tinubu since assumption of office have begun to positively impact the nation’s economy.
Alake said this on Thursday while hosting a delegation of the All Progressives Congress Professionals Forum led by a former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda.
He disclosed that Tinubu’s progressive leadership and courage in taking difficult decisions was turning the tide, putting the economy on a strong footing.
“The President has chosen to leave a legacy of taking difficult decisions that will herald enduring structures that will not only outlast the administration, but also make it impossible for successive administrations to deviate from.
“The society would have become used to a certain standard of service delivery at the end of the Tinubu administration that Nigerians will no more settle for anything less,” he said
On the Federal Government’s efforts towards infrastructural renewal, especially the Lagos-Calabar coastal road, the minister said, “On completion of that coastal road, the amount of tourism that will be generated along that axis is unimaginable. It will be one of the longest tourism coast town drive in Africa, not to talk of the ease of movement of goods and services; the economic impact of ports along the route, and it will finally link up to Sokoto – a project which has been in the pipeline for more than 30 years.”
Remarking, Yuguda called on Nigerians and the Federal Government to rally round Alake, adding that solid minerals have all it takes to overtake oil as the mainstay of the nation’s economy.
Speaking on the mission of the APC professionals’ forum, the former Bauchi State governor said that the group is a foremost group of patriotic professionals in diverse fields committed to nation building.
