Nigeria is on the verge of economic recovery and prosperity, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said yesterday.
He lamented past decades of waste and theft of public resources by a few people under the subsidy regime.
The President is confident that the pains of subsidy removal and harsh economic conditions will soon disappear.
According to him, Nigerians will savour improved public services and infrastructural development this year.
President Tinubu spoke at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, capital of Imo State, where eminent Nigerians converged for the second-term swearing-in of Governor Hope Uzodimma, and his deputy, Lady Ihuoma Ekomaru.
Promising that post-subsidy pains would soon end, he said: “I stand before you to say you have gone through twists and turns of democracy. You have been through some aspects of hard decisions.
“Each time I watch the news and see one pain or the other associated with the removal of subsidy, just remember that among you, your families, are pregnant people.
“The day of birth is the day of pain. You go through the labour pain, but when you see or hear the voice of the baby, your pains are gone and you are relieved.
“In the last 40 years, some very few people have been cornering our commonwealth, calling it subsidy.
“I call it wastefulness and pilfering. But right now, we are going through the pain, we are sharing that pain.”
Tinubu added, ”Today, we are inaugurating a man’s second term, a renewed hope and that is why I am here, to guarantee you that hope, that things are looking up, things are getting better and it will get greater and better for the common good of the Nigerian public.
“We just need to work hard, be more patient, persevere and have consistency in governance.”
Nigeria about to recover – Tinubu
