President Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies got the nod of the State Governors yesterday.
The governors said they were committed to encouraging the President to “continue along the line to bring the country out of recession.”
The support was one of the highpoints of the resolution adopted at an extraordinary meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) in Abuja.
The meeting came 24 hours after a Ministerial Retreat on the Economy and Budget where President Buhari urged the ministries, departments and agencies to begin to think outside the box with a view to fixing the national economy.
“The challenges we face in the current recession require ‘out-of-the box’ thinking,to deploy strategies that involve engaging meaningfully with the private sector,to raise the level of private sector investment in the economy as a whole,” Buhari said at the ministerial retreat.
Besides the economy,the governors asked the federal authorities to treat the issue of insurgency as a national emergency.
NGF Chairman and Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari said the forum also agreed to activate the states task force on polio or the primary health care, which is to be led by the deputy governors.
The governors similarly expressed their determination to pay their counterpart funding towards polio eradication.
They plan to engage the Minister of Health to give urgent attention to the eradication of Lassa Fever in the country.