President Bola Ahmed Tinubu while lamenting past decaes of waste and theft of public resources by a few under the subsidy regime has assured Nigerians of economic recovery and prosperity
Nigeria is on the verge of economic recovery and prosperity, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said at the second term swearing in ceremony of Imo state governor Sen. Hope Uzodima and his deputy, Lady Ihuoma Ekomaru at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, capital of Imo State.
The President expresses confident that the pains of subsidy removal and harsh economic conditions will soon disappear, says Nigerians will savour improved public services and infrastructural development this year.
Promising that post-subsidy pains would soon end, he said: “I stand before you to say you have gone through twists and turns of democracy. You have been through some aspects of hard decisions.
“Each time I watch the news and see one pain or the other associated with the removal of subsidy, just remember that among you, your families, are pregnant people.
“The day of birth is the day of pain. You go through the labour pain, but when you see or hear the voice of the baby, your pains are gone and you are relieved.
“In the last 40 years, some very few people have been cornering our commonwealth, calling it subsidy.
“I call it wastefulness and pilfering. But right now, we are going through the pain, we are sharing that pain.”
President Tinubu added: ”Today, we are inaugurating a man’s second term, a renewed hope and that is why I am here, to guarantee you that hope, that things are looking up, things are getting better and it will get greater and better for the common good of the Nigerian public.
“We just need to work hard, be more patient, persevere and have consistency in governance.”