Governors Of 36 States Support Buhari’s Economic Recession Measures

Governors of the 36 states of Nigeria have unanimously expressed their support for the measures being taken by President Muhammadu Buhari to address the economic recession into which the country has been thrown.
Rising from a brief emergency meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, today, Friday, the governors, under the umbrella of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, stressed the need for all Nigerians to cooperate with the government to take the country out of the recession.
The chairman of the Forum cum governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Abdul’Azeez Abubakar Yari, in a terse statement read before the news men shortly after the meeting, said that the governors are determined to key into the federal government to diversify the economy as part of the solution to the economic downturn.
The governors’ emergency came a day after a presidential retreat on recession and budget was held and declared open by President Buhari in the same venue.
The President had asked his ministers and other stakeholders for whom the retreat was organized, to think-out-of-the-box in an effort to steer the country away from recession.
Meanwhile, the governors have
declared emergency on polio that had just resurfaced in part Borno state, as well as Lassa fever.
The NGE chairman told the news men that state governments would work hand-in-hand with the federal ministry of health to ensure that adequate measures are taken to quickly end the scourge. [myad]