Two members of the Organised Private Sector have tasked presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections not to focus on paper works or manifestoes but adopt practical approaches to solve Nigeria’s problems in their campaigns, IgbereTV reports
A former Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Association of Small And Medium Enterprises (NASME), Monday-Michaels Ashibogwu; and a former Director General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, spoke on Tuesday.
“We have been looking at offers by some candidates but we are more concern in seeing something that will become more in practice than just a paper work. We have very novel paper works that have been on the shelve for years, issues than concern the organised private sector tend stem from implementation and sincerity of that implementation,” Ashibogwu said.
He added that whoever is going to take up the task has a lot of work to do to solve the problems of insecurity, kidnapping and of recent issues of food security.
“We have had that experience in power reforms, we have had the experience in energy reforms in terms of oil and gas reforms, so the issue is who is going to walk the talk,” he said.
Also, Yusuf said while manifestos are good, the ability to assemble a competent team is more critical.
He said anybody can get a good consultant to put up a manifesto but the capacity to put a competent team together with proper understanding of economic issues and their implementation is what is paramount.
“One of the challenges we have today is not lack of good policy document, we have excellent documents but those document are just gathering dust, nobody is acting on those documents,” Yusuf stated
