President Bola Tinubu on Monday said his administration is rewriting Nigeria’s decades-long story of economic underperformance.
Tinubu pointed to rising GDP growth, a surge in capital inflows and gains in manufacturing as evidence that his reforms are taking hold.
The president, represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, made the remarks while formally declaring open the 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, themed “Growth That Works: Delivering Jobs, Productivity and Shared Prosperity.”
Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Communications, Stanley Nkwocha, revealed details of the deliberations in a statement signed Monday titled ‘At 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit: President Tinubu: We’re Rewriting Nigeria’s Story of Underperformance.’
Nkwocha quoted Tinubu as saying, “We came to rewrite the story of a nation that has performed below its potential for far too long. But there is no shortcut to economic growth.
“This is why we began with a difficult reset. For
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