While speaking on Wednesday during a Gala Night at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari said the recent
statistics reeled out by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that his administration is doing well.
According to PUNCH, the president who made the comments at the event organised by beneficiaries of the government’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, said this barely hours after the NBS announced that the number of unemployed persons of working age had risen to 20.9 million.
He said that statistics from the NBS has confirmed that his administration’s policies are yielding results, adding that he inherited, “A broken system in the agricultural sector in 2015”.
After hearing testimonies from some rice farmers, the President said, “Seeing your faces and hearing your stories give me hope. Today, we are on the track to achieving an all-inclusive economy.”