There Is Nothing Wrong With Nigeria – Taiwo Oyedele Cautions Against Negative Mindset

Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has advised Nigerians to desist from using the phrase “May Nigeria never happen to you.”

He insisted that there is nothing wrong with Nigeria, and urged the citizenry to instead use expressions such as May Nigeria work for me”

Oyedele shared his thoughts at The Platform, an event organized by the Covenant Nation. He asserted that the worst is behind Nigeria and things would soon begin to get better.

Oyedele said, “There is nothing wrong with Nigeria. But maybe there is something wrong with the people ruling Nigeria.

“In America, people get killed every day by gunmen. But have you ever heard Americans say, ‘May America never happen to you?’ Let’s stop saying, ‘May Nigeria never happen to you.’ Maybe we can turn it into, ‘May Nigeria work for me.’

“Going by available data, I personally believe that the worst is behind us.

“Removing subsidies is the best decision we made as a country. And we can now say that, for once, the subsidy is gone.

“We were living in window-dressed realities. If you look back to about two years ago, the naira exchange rate was N450 depending on who you asked. But was our exchange rate really N450? If you wanted to buy petrol, it was under N200 per litre, but was it really under N200 per litre.”