By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Federal Government that it cannot borrow, import and tax its way to prosperity, insisting that the country’s economic salvation lies in producing what it eats, manufacturing what it uses and exporting what it makes.
“Factories cannot thrive where borrowing is prohibitive, energy is unaffordable, the currency is unstable and consumers are too poor to buy locally made goods. Our mission is simple: Produce in Nigeria.
Employ Nigerians. Consume Nigerian products. Export Nigerian excellence. The wealth of nations is measured not by what they import but by what they produce, process and export. That is the Nigeria we helped build before, and by the grace of God, that is the Nigeria we shall build again,” Atiku said.
In a statement on Monday in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said the hardship confronting Nigerians is not merely the result of global headwinds but the inevitable consequence of policies that rewarded consumption over production, importation over industrialisation and dependency over self-reliance.
