Tinubu’s reforms yielding fruit, minister insists 

Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, has declared that reforms of the President Bola Tinubu administration have started manifesting in the resurgence of the nation’s economy.

Speaking while receiving a delegation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Professionals Forum, led by former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, the minister stated that Tinubu’s progressive leadership and courage in taking difficult decisions are turning the tide, putting the economy on a strong footing.

Alake: “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 longer settle for anything less.”

According to the minister, it has become evident that the temporary pains of reforms are beginning to ease, citing the appreciation of the Naira and emerging stability in the forex market.

Alake highlighted the administration’s efforts towards infrastructure renewal, citing the Lagos-Calabar coastal road, which he stated on completion, would shorten travel time to the Cross River state capital to two and half hours.

He charged the forum as a repository of knowledge and diverse professionals within the APC to contribute their quota to the success of the administration, reiterating that the APC-led Federal Government is open to innovative ideas in its quest to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians through the Renewed Hope Agenda.

In his remarks, Yuguda congratulated the minister on his appointment, commending his efforts to sanitise and attract global attention to the mining sector, as well as emphasising that solid minerals remain the key to Nigeria’s economic prosperity.

He urged Nigerians and the government to support Alake with all that is required to transform the mining sector, stressing that solid minerals have all it takes to overtake oil as the mainstay of the nation’s economy.