The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, says President Bola Tinubu will initiate more developments in the Northern Region through positive initiatives and solidification of people-oriented policies and programmes.
Idris stated this in an interview on the sidelines of a two-day Interactive Session on Government-citizens’ Engagement on Tuesday in Kaduna.
The theme of the event is ‘Assessing Electoral Promises: Fostering Government-Citizens Engagement for National Unity’.
The programme was organised by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation.
The minister explained that before Tinubu’s election, he was in Kaduna, and engaged with the leaders from the Northern part of the country and made promises ranging from security, to agriculture economy and governance.
“Now that the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation has invited us; Tinubu said we should come here in our numbers, all of us from the Northern part of the country, that he has appointed to deal with some of these issues.
“We have come here to answer their questions. We have come here to lay down all those things that the President said he was going to do, when he made those promises.
“The President has already fulfilled many of them. Many of them are still being awaited and he will instigate more developments for the Northern Region through positive initiatives and people oriented policies and programmes.
“Remember that this is just the midterm of the administration. We believe that by the time the President ends his first term, we would have answered most of the questions that they have asked.
“By then, we will have kept most of these promises. Already, many of them have been kept. And you can see from the mood in the hall; almost everyone here is happy,” Idris said.
The minister further reiterated that over 60 leaders from the northern part of the country, serving in the current administration, have been invited to the event.
He stated that they were at the event to tell Nigerians, especially people of the North, what the government of Tinubu said it was going to do, what it has done and more it would do.
“Very senior people from the northern part of the country are all happy that we have come. They are happy that we are engaging in this high-level manner.
“This is unprecedented. It is the first time that Ministers in this high number will come here to talk to the citizens in this kind of manner; please note that, is not going to be a one-off thing.
“We’ll continue to engage the people from time to time, because, this is the best form of having better collaboration between the government and people in the position of leadership,”Idris said.
9news Nigeria reports that while the first plenary session concentrated on national security, the second was governance and the economy.
The Federal Government’s team on defence, security, governance and economy did justice to the topics through presentations of the laudable achievements of the Tinubu-led administration.
