Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has urged the nation’s political leaders to stop lamenting over the parlous state of the Nigerian economy but rather proffer solutions on how the country can get out of its current recession.
The governor who spoke as the guest of honour at the closing ceremony of National Women conference organised by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials in Lagos stressed that lamentation will not bail the country out of its economic downturn. He urged women to be resilient in the face of the present adversity and demonstrate their potentials as great economists.
Oshiomhole who commended Governor Ambode’s strides in vehicular traffic management said, “You have shown that our task as leaders is not to lament what does not work but to think through how to make it work and that you are doing; that you have done and I know that you will continue to do.
“As I was coming to this place today, I noticed something that I think is worth celebrating because of its impact in helping family unity and family union. Why will you wake up at 5am or 4am just to be at work at 8am devoting all the time to traffic?
“The reason was because of the huge traffic challenges but when I received the invitation for today’s event and I was advised that it was 10am and I know my brother, Governor Ambode keeps to time, I said we have to get up early and I told my wife that we are going to spend about two hours from Ikeja Airport to get to Ikoyi, but I was very pleasantly surprised that coming from Ikeja to this place, it was like flying a first class aircraft from Alausa to the heart of Ikoyi.
“When I got here, I was asking the governor how he did it and he shared with me the interventions put in place within months of his assumption of office.”
