Yemi Osinbajo has said the collaboration of the Federal and state government is key to achieving development plans of the country.
He stated that the business of governing needs innovations to curb complex challenges, adding that the two tiers of government were in a better situation to resolve them through partnership.
“But despite the important initiatives and decisions of NEC, we will achieve little if we do not have relevant state government agencies actively working with the federal government to implement them.
“So, the role of the SGFs is clearly central to cascading the action points and conclusions to the relevant MDAs in their states.
“And this is so, whether we are implementing the federal government’s fertilizer policy or the anchor borrowers scheme in the states.
“So when we speak of the Nigerian economy it is the sum of the economies of the federal government and the states.
“Yet each government determines its own priorities, draws its own budget and implements its own programmes and projects.
“So a meeting such as this, where the agenda and modalities for collaboration may be set is in my view an eminently sensible idea and requires the support of all of us if we are to meet the expectations of our people,’’ he said.
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