AS Nigeria marks 2017 Democracy Day, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has identified current economic challenge as the greatest threat to the nation’s democracy and called for concerted and united efforts of all Nigerians to move it out of the woods.
Saraki, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, to commemorate 2017 Democracy Day celebration, also thanked Nigerians for their perseverance, patience, understanding and resilience in the face of the current economic challenges, even as he assured that better days were near.
He urged Nigerians to support the policies of government aimed at involving the private sector in key sectors of the economy, focusing on locally manufactured goods, encouraging small and medium scale entrepreneurs, developing alternative sources of foreign exchange other than oil, directing attention to commercial agriculture and mining of mineral resources, eliminating smuggling and other activities which could sabotage the economy.
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