Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, has poured encomiums on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying that he has focus and direction in charting a good path for the country.
Nnaji who said this in his country home, Akpugo, Nkanu West local government area of Enugu state on Saturday when he organised a get-together for party faithful and stakeholders, noted that the hardship in the country was not occasioned by him.
He said President Tinubu was merely trying to rejig the country and rebuild what had been ruined.
According to the Minister, the people would soon smile when Tinubu had done with the reforms and programmes he has for the country.
His words: “What we have today is a leadership that has focus and direction. He is not playing eye service. He is treating the country the way he met it. All the hardship that we are meeting today, is not from him. He is only here to correct. And for correction, there has to be ups and downs here. The important thing is that at the end of the day, we’ll have a nation that everybody will be proud of.”
Nnaji, who used the occasion to intimate on his forthcoming desire to vie for the governorship of Enugu State, said that he would not over tax or overburden the people.
Condemning the Enugu state budget proposal for 2025 pegged at over N970 billion, he said that it was a bogus one that will be hard to be financed.
The Minister said that the intension of the bogus budget is an avenue to take loans and enslave the state the more.
He lamented that before Mbah became governor, Enugu was reeling under the debt burden of about N50 billion, pointing out that Mbah might jerk up the debt burden to about a hundred billion Naira
“He, Gov. Mbah, is planning to take more loan. He has planned to take more loan to fund the budget. Enugu today is in a loan of over N100 bn and by the time he takes more loans, Enugu will be highly indebted.”
Speaking at the occasion, the Chairman of APC, Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa expressed optimism that come 2027, his party would take over the government house.
