Vice President Yemi Osibanjo and Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Thursday that Nigeria’s journey towards industrialization required an enabling environment that can only be forged through partnership between the public and private sectors.
The duo, however, said President Muhammadu Buhari has started the journey for economic rebound on the right path with the fight against corruption.
They spoke at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, during the opening ceremony of a two-day summit organized by Leadership Newspaper with the theme: “Industrialization in the States: A Leadership Summit.”
Osibanjo, who delivered a key note address, said Nigeria is facing an exciting times given the present economic challenge as all eyes are on the leaders at all levels to fix the economic within the shortest period.
He said time has come for the federal and states governments as well as those in the private sector to move the Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) from planning to implementation stage.
The vice president, who was represented by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, said the Buhari administration is poised to take away the motivation that comes from corruption in other to sanitize the system, restore investors’ confidence and build institutions for sustaining growth and development of the country.
Oshiomhole on his part said, “Now with the method adopted by our President to fight corruption, the National Security Adviser to the President will not allow anything to happen to money meant for security, let alone to share it to politicians who have no business with it.”
Also the governors of Kano and Bauchi States, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Mohammed Abubakar, said there is need for consistency in policy formulation and implementation in the country to drive the nation towards genuine industrialization.
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