A former member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Ayobami Oyalowo, has said that state governments should also answer for job creation in their respective capacities.
Oyalowo, who was answering questions regarding the plans of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in rescuing the economy of the country, particularly in the area of job creation, said state governments should also be questioned.
The APC chieftain said this when he featured on Arise TV Morning Show on Monday.
According to him, Tinubu has a load of economic plans for the country.
“Asiwaju (Tinubu) has stated clearly what a government should do. We keep forgetting that we have three tiers of government. When you keep talking about jobs, have you asked state governors what have they done in terms of job creation?” he said when questioned on how Tinubu intended to tackle the rate of unemployment in the country.
“See, let me quickly bring you back to where we were before Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) became president.
“Our entire grain crops in Nigeria – over 90% – were imported. As I speak today, that has been removed. We have empowered farmers. But of course, nobody talks about farmers, you keep thinking people who don’t work in ministries and government agencies are jobless, however, go and check the statistics,” he added.
According to him, to know who is wealthy in the North, one of the things you have to look at is the ability to go for Umrah or Hajj.
“Go and check the last five years, the highest number of people from the North who have gone on hajj have been farmers who were empowered, especially rice and grain farmers. Creating jobs is not only for people to get jobs in ministry,” he added.
He said Tinubu’s manifesto ensured that every zone had a competitive advantage, saying Tinubu would empower the zones by going through the governors and ensuring that jobs were created.
He said Tinubu could be trusted in the affairs of the country having been “the architect of what we’re seeing today” in Lagos.
