The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Charles Soludo has explained that his support for President Bola Tinubu stems from the President’s bold economic policies and structural reforms.
While speaking with newsmen after a meeting with Tinubu on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Soludo urged political parties that identify as progressive to form a broad coalition to promote democracy as well as economic and social development in Nigeria.
He said: “I support him, and I’m impressed by the bold steps he has taken, particularly in the areas of the economy, the structural reforms, and I have said so severally, we’re taking the right steps and we need to stay the course”.
Soludo said the ”President is in such high spirit, hale and hearty and it was such a pleasure to meet with him, it was quite a pleasant meeting”.
”I believe very strongly, that all those political parties who profess progressivism should actually come out together in a massive coalition to deepen the process, not only of our democracy, but also of economic and social development of our country.
”So for me, when I say progressives working together. It’s a call for all those who love Nigeria.
”I don’t have any apologies about it. President Tinubu is my friend. Has been my friend 22 years now and counting, so you don’t deny your friend. I began to be quivering about who is he. He is my friend.
”Well, If I have to tell you all the details about what we have done, it will involve a holistic approach to the issue of security. If you realise, January this year, we passed our Homeland Security Law, which is trying to deal with insecurity from the foundations.
”All the deadly native doctors are on the run from the state, because these are the guys giving false hope and so on and deceiving our young ones and luring them into criminality and all of that.
”But very fundamentally, we’re approaching it very comprehensively, what they call the kineti and non- kinetic approaches.
”The Kinetic is gone and the usual, but the non kinetic, especially with what we are dealing with, the youths, the empowerment, the job creation, we have a unique programme one year through skills that is like no other, where we trained and empowered about 5000 of them, and another 8700 will be receiving some billions this month or Next month, and we’re creating several 1000s of youth millionaires right away within the first three years.
“The youths are very much involved, and we’re also dealing with the issue of hardship, beyond the massive infrastructural transformation, beyond fixing our schools, fixing our health and so on and so forth, we’re also very intentional about economic and social empowerment of the youth.”