National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration needed to borrow in order to invest in infrastructure and grow the economy.
This was contained in a statement issued from his office in Abuja and circulated to journalists.
Odigie-Oyegun dexplained, “If you read the newspapers, you hear the President being advised to pump money into the economy.
“So, the question is, where is the money coming from? Simple, it has to come from somewhere, including borrowing – both internal and external.
“To get this country going again, you have to pay contractors. Some contractors have not been paid for four, five, six, 10 years.
“So long as the borrowing is done, not to pay salaries, which the President Buhari administration will not do, but invested to create opportunities, solve our problems of power and things like that.”
Odigie-Oyegun described the war as a task that must be accomplished, saying corruption was at the core of the nation’s problems.
He described corrupt people as “immoral and lacking in ethics,” adding that Nigeria must rid itself of corruption and its attendant consequences in order to make progress.
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in his remarks at the event, described the APC chairman as “a man, who has, by the divine intervention of God, changed the face of politics in our country.”