It has been said that President Bola Tinubu has said enough that is right, so far, but should now follow up all his words with action.
Making this as a point in his responses to interview programme anchors on Channels Television’s Democracy Day special programme on Monday was the Director General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mr. Segun Ajayi-Kadir, who demanded action from the President, Bola Tinubu, especially in the manufacturing sector.
The MAN DG said, “The president so far has always said the right things, now is time for him to put actions to the words. We have had this snail on our neck since independence, but in more recent times, we have seen a situation where government has only paid lip service to the plight of the manufacturing sector.”
According to Ajayi-Kadir, there is no nation on earth that is considered wealthy or developed or prosperous that does not have a vibrant manufacturing sector.
He noted that the manufacturing sector has the greatest opportunities to create jobs, the greatest opportunity to revive the economy and set the path to development, adding that for this reason, governments all over the world incentivise manufacturing.
Ajayi-Kadi described Tinubu’s preference to support domestic manufacturing as against importation as the best strategy any government can have, and praised the president for his proposed unified exchange rate which he said MAN has always advocated.
