Tinubu’s Support Is Helping Governors To Help The People – Gov. Peter Mbah

Peter Mbah

Enugu State Governor, Dr Peter Mbah, has said that President Tinubu’s Support has helped South-East governors to do more for their people. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

Stressing that it would’ve been tough for governors to achieve so much without Tinubu’s bold policies, Mbah stated that the president has aided several administrations by freeing up resources.

The governor added that Tinubu deserves praise for consistently doing everything within his power to transform Nigeria’s economy.

His words, “I think it would have been impossible for us to have done things at this scale without some of the bold and courageous policies of Mr. President.

First of all, what the policies of Mr. President have done for sub-nationals, largely, is to free up resources.

And, I think the President has been very intentional in terms of how this $1 trillion economy is to be achieved since he believes strongly that this is not going to come from up, but it’s going to come from the periphery. In order to achieve that you have to strengthen the full intent of responsibility, acting and providing them with finance.

I had a conversation with my predecessor who told me what he went through and how he sometimes struggled when he came back from FAAC to pay salaries and how in many instances after the payment of salaries, nothing was left for the state to work with.

So, what we’re seeing today at a scale is only possible because we now have more funds coming from the federation account and of course a lot of support from the centre to the sub-national.

For us, it is good to make good use of that opportunity and that is essentially all we are doing in Enugu. So, whether you want to look at things from the removal of the subsidies, the unification of the exchange rates, the reform in the tax sector and a whole lot of great initiatives, Mr. President means well for this country and we are very proud of him.

Now we’re also having a look at the NELFUND policy, which is something that we’re excited about because typically the list of scholarships you get, the applications you get, it’s almost unimaginable, but today we encourage them to assess NELFUND, which has then freed funds for us as states to do other essential things for the progress of our people.”

WOW.