As Abiru vows to keep campaign promises
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged Nigerians, especially residents to enter the New Year with a rekindled and renewed hope in themselves and the nation that things will get better in 2021.
Also, despite ravaging COVID-19 challenges, Senator Tokunbo Abiru, representing Lagos East Senatorial District has expressed optimism that Year 2021 will be the beginning of economic recovery and transformation in Nigeria.
Sanwo-Olu in his New Year’s message while speaking to journalists at the State House, Marina on Thursday, advised people not to enter 2021 with any grievance, pain or regrets, saying that all negative things should be left with 2020.
When the administration of late President Umaru Yar’Adua toyed with the idea of Vision 2020, a dream intended to birth Nigeria into the group of the best global 20 economies by year 2020, many Nigerians looked forward to the year with great anticipation.
As with human limitations, not the best of seers could foretell the disasters and destructions that were to follow. Perhaps, looking back, Nigerians ought to have peeped into year 2020 with loads of trepidation.
The real manifestations of year 2020, however, had not been one that inspired the hopes and the optimism Nigerians had longed for as it became one of the most deadly in the history of humanity considering the high number of deaths recorded on account of the COVID-19 pandemic that shook the entire world to its very foundation.
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The senator representing Lagos East senatorial district, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru, Thursday, appreciated the effort of the federal government to implement its Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), noting that 2021 would be the beginning of economic recovery and transformation.
Abiru, a former Executive Director, First Bank and the immediate past Chief Executive Officer, Polaris Bank, also disclosed the plan to inaugurate an endowment fund in the first quarter to complement the efforts of the federal and state governments in skill acquisition and capacity development.
He disclosed the plan in a two-page message, ‘Welcome to Year 2021’ he sent to his constituents to mark the advent of 2021, thanking God that they “are alive, hale and healthy to witness the New Year amid hope and optimism.”
2021, year of economic recovery, transformation for Nigeria- Abiru assures
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni
Despite ravaging COVID-19 challenges, Senator Tokunbo Abiru, representing Lagos East District has expressed optimism that Year 2021 will be the beginning of economic recovery and transformation in Nigeria.
Abiru however said, inspite of all its low moments, residents and Nigerians in general still have every cause to appreciate God for all the events of Year 2020.
The senator made the remarks in his new year’s message, o bFriday, titled: “Welcome to Year 2021.”
The message read in part: “Year 2020 has finally folded into the armpits of history. It was possibly the most challenging year in our recent history as a federation given the outbreak of COVID-19 that plunged our economy into a recession and the eruption of EndSARS protests that called for a more accountable, transparent and citizen-focused policing structure.