By Kolawole Ojebisi
President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s determination to implement formulated reforms regardless of the opposition from certain quarters.
This is as Tinubu dismissed some governors’ opposition to the key policies of his administration.
Tinubu said he was aware that some governors were angry with him but he would live with their “noise.”
The President spoke on Saturday while on a one-day official visit to Enugu State.
Brushing aside the opposition of the governors to his administration’s policies, Tinubu stressed that there’s no better way to address the country’s challenges than implementing current reforms.
He said, “I inherited some of these critical problems and I’m going to do it. I’m lucky I have good governors, though some may be angry with me locally, but we just have to push. Yorubas will say, ‘The pig will get to the slaughter but there will be a lot of noise,’.. I’ll live with the noise.”
The President also said he would not allow the negative comments against his administration to deter him from his mission to rebuild Nigeria.
“This house (Nigeria), we must build it, build it to satisfy our immediate need which is not going to be enough yet, but our tomorrow too, that is why the removal of the fuel subsidy was necessary. You cannot spend the future of our generations yet unborn in advance, don’t bankrupt the nation before they’re are born.
“People will fight, grumble, abuse me and everything but I asked for the job, I have what it takes, I believe in myself, that is why I gathered a very good team to build the nation.
“It is our country; we have to work really hard for it to be the nation that we can be proud of. Negative comments about Nigeria, I’m not taking that, I’m very proud of Nigeria, you all should be proud of Nigeria,” Tinubu said.
Recall that some governors, particularly those from the Northern region of the country, have vehemently oppose some reforms being proposed by the Tinubu administration.
Many Northern governors and leaders have asked Tinubu to withdraw the tax reform bills before the National Assembly for further consideration.
But the president has stuck to his gun, claiming there’s no other way to take the economy out of the woods.
The recent criticism launched at the reforms came from Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, who said implementing certain policies by the Tinubu government would take the North backwards.
