ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY: Osinbajo’s committee meets presidential advisory council

The Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo met with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) members on Thursday over a sustainability plan.

On 2nd April, President Muhammadu Buhari had inaugurated the former with a view to proffering solutions to the challenges emerging from the coronavirus pandemic.

Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, said in a series of tweets that the ESC would hand its report to the president.

“As part of the work of the Economic Sustainability Committee chaired by VP Osinbajo, members of Economic Advisory Council were invited to a meeting today for their inputs into the committee’s forthcoming report to the President.

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“The goals of the report — the Sustainability Plan — include to stimulate significant local production, save jobs, create new ones and also protect the most vulnerable and the working poor.”

Akande noted that part of the goals of the report was to transform current challenges to opportunities for the country and its citizens in accordance with the president’s vision.

He went further to say that members of the PEAC and the ESC were joined by many ministers in the videoconference delivered from the Presidential Villa.

“ESC’s engagement with the PEAC creates synergy and effective coordination as Nigeria confronts what is clearly a serious economic situation,” he stated.

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