Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration should not be blamed for the infrastructural deficiencies in the country.
“We do not get to the situation where we get into overnight and we should not expect to get out of it overnight.
“If you look at what the government inherited and where we are today it is clear that the government has remained focused and the solutions proferred to our challenges are working.
“When we came in, the economy was over dependent on oil and today the recovery is being driven by agriculture, mining creative industry and manufacturing which means our diversification programme is working.
“It has never happened in the history of the country that a government will spend N1.2 trillion in capital expenditure like the Administration did and we are seeing the positive results have helped us to get out of recession.” he said.
“The last administration spent only N5 billion on power, this administration has spent over N90 billion on power: In housing the last administration spent N8 billion while we have spent N70 billion.”
“Restructuring means different thing to different people and that is why we have the debate that is going on now to collate the various ideas of Nigerians as to what restructuring means in order to know what exactly to do.
“To some. restructuring means going back to the former three of four regions, to some it means creation of additional states as was proposed in the 2014 Confab.
“To some, restructuring means resource control, to some it means devolution of more power to states while to some it means state police
“Let us collate and aggregate what Nigerians mean by restructuring and of course we still need to go back to National Assembly if we want to effect any change in the constitution,” he said.
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