The Chairman of the Northern Governors Discussion board, Inuwa Yahaya, visited President Bola Tinubu within the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, the place he sought stronger collaboration between the federal and state governments to raised the lot of Nigerians.
Yahaya, who can also be the governor of Gombe State, spoke to newsmen after he met behind closed doorways with the president, lauding the federal authorities’s steps in direction of ending the disaster in Kaduna and Plateau states.
He stated: “Collaboration of the states and the federal authorities, together with the native governments, may be very key and basic for us as a result of if there may be any disconnect, we could not ship on what we now have to do for the individuals.”
In line with him: “There have been a number of engagements between us in direction of the tip of 2023, significantly on healthcare, enabling enterprise surroundings reforms and plenty of extra. With out the financial system selecting up and doing properly, we’ll proceed to be the place we’re and even worse off.”
Commenting on the significance of agriculture to human improvement and attaining meals sufficiency, the governor stated there’s a want for farmers to embrace fashionable strategies to spice up their manufacturing.
“The way in which it’s now, individuals have to grasp that we should modernise. There’s a want for machine instruments, and there’s a want for processing and fortuitously, Gombe is among the many states which have been authorized to be a part of the Particular Agric Processing Zones.
“We’ve got arrange an industrial park the place we will course of all of the uncooked supplies or agricultural produce that we now have within the state. I feel if all states will key in and work in tandem with the federal authorities, we will simply attain the specified vacation spot for Nigeria,” he added.
Additionally commenting on safety challenges troubling some elements of the nation, the governor counseled Nigeria President for delegating Vice President Kashim Shettima to go to Kaduna and Plateau states to get the main points of what transpired at Tudun Biri in Kaduna, in addition to at Bokkos and Barikin Ladi Native Authorities Areas of Plateau State.
“In my capability because the Chairman of the Northern Governors Discussion board, I reward the steps taken by the President to get to the foundation of what occurred in these two states and the pledge he made that the precise motion could be taken to stop future occurrences of those incidents. Above all, I’m thanking him for the help given to victims or survivors,” the governor said.
Talking particularly concerning the Plateau disaster, the governor stated there was a necessity for a evaluation of the fast and distant causes to discover a lasting resolution.
“Even if this matter has been there for a very long time, it’s time for stakeholders to have a spherical desk and inform one another the reality after which take deliberate steps in direction of loving one another. Prior to now, the individuals had been residing in peace and going about their regular companies.
“A number of the main points that appear to permit the issue to persist embody points like farmer-herder clashes and the clamour for indigenes versus settlers. However the world over, if any society or nation doesn’t welcome guests, such a nation is not going to progress. In spite of everything, we listed below are one and the identical household.
“Due to this fact, we’re commiserating with those that misplaced their family members. There ought to be no motive why anybody ought to go and kill or take the lifetime of a fellow human being since it’s not a battle scenario. Reprisal assaults haven’t taken us anyplace so what we have to consider is knowing ourselves and figuring out that we now have leaders in any respect ranges with whom we will lodge our complaints. We must always imbibe the behavior of loving each other and residing in peace for the progress of all of us,” the Gombe State governor suggested.
He additional instructed newsmen that his go to to the seat of energy was particularly to tell Nigeria President of the achievements the state has made below his management.
He stated his administration is able to put extra phrases into motion to facilitate improvement within the state often called the Jewel within the Savannah.