By John Okoh
Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari, has said that President Buhari disclosed before 36 state governors during a closed door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday that the economy is in bad shape
Yari said Buhari called the meeting to discuss issues on the economy and the need for the governments to work as a team towards revamping the economy.
He said: “Mr President, as usual, responded by telling us that the economy is in a bad shape and we have to come together and think and rethink on way forward.
“So, Mr President talked to us in the manner that we have a task ahead of us. So, we should tighten our belts and see how we can put Nigerian economy in the right direction and how we can address the nation’s infrastructural decay.
“So, all of us as leaders, especially those that are coming to the National Assembly and those coming back as governors and the president who will be re-elected by God’s grace, we should not think that things are going to be easy, they are going to be harder than before.
“This was the message of Mr President,’’ he said.
