2023: We Need A Financial Engineer Like Tinubu To Address Our Challenges, APC Chieftain
Dr. Abiola Oshodi.

By Dayo Johnson, Akure

The Media Director of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential Council Canada Chapter, Dr. Abiola Oshodi, has said that the nation needed a financial engineer like the party’s Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to address the nation’s fiscal challenges.

Oshodi in a statement made available to Vanguard in Akure, the Ondo state capital, said that” Nigeria needs as the next president, a financial engineer like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who as the Lagos State governor significantly increased the State’s revenue from 1999 to 2007 and laid the foundation for its current We need a financial engineer like Tinubu to address our challenges, APC Chieftain.

Oshodi in a statement made available to Vanguard in Akure, the Ondo state capital, said that” Nigeria needs as the next president, a financial engineer like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who as the Lagos State governor significantly increased the State’s revenue from 1999 to 2007 and laid the foundation for its current financial stability.

The party’s Chieftain added that “voting Tinubu as the president in the 2023 poll, would address financial challenges that Nigeria was currently going through.

” The country’s increasing debt profile occasioned by a low collection of revenue was worrisome and must be tamed by the country’s next president, hence the need for the electorate to vote Tinubu.

This is the same revenue problem that Senator Tinubu met in Lagos when he assumed office as the governor of the state, a challenge that he promptly dealt with if elected and sworn in by May 29, 2023, he would also meet a revenue problem and he would be expected to deal with it.

Oshodi said that” government at various levels including President Muhammad Buhari had repeatedly pointed out the revenue challenges that the country was going through.

According to him” President Buhari himself during the presentation of the 2023 budget affirmed that Nigeria’s debt service to revenue ratio needed close attention.

“Nigeria’s total debt profile as of September 2022 was according to the Debt Management Office (DMO) N41.60 trillion which the Director General of DMO Mrs. Patience Oniha attributed to a shortfall in revenue.

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