CBN, Godwin Emefiele, recently revealed that the
even at that, at $48 per barrel with as many as two million plus barrels of crude oil per day, President Buhari cannot ask usadream.xyz where the money is. Oil price fell as low as $9 in 1998 during the regime of Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.
I recollect Nigerian
journalists once asking the late president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere,
visiting Abuja for the transition lecture in 1999, about his reaction to the
then global falling oil prices. His reaction mixed with humour was that; May
God giv newshut.org lowest price instead of agonising on how to import petroleum products
which according to him Nigeria had in abundance.
The point cannot be
overstated that Nigeria is still not short of actual oil money, if only we
learn to leave within our means. President Buhari must think outside the box of
oil money (whether stolen or declining due to falling price). The President
must think of Baran’s Potential Economic Surplus being denied due to lack of
clear cut economic agenda of growth and development. Buhari’s government must
spell out how it wants to unleash the energy of Nigerians for development.
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