Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said a four-year tenure is too small
for anyone in public office to deliver because there are many plans of
things to deliver that will take time.
Osinbajo said this in an interview at the Financial Times Nigeria Summit held in Lagos.
According to the transcript of the interview made available to journalists on Saturday, the Vice President said, “I
think that for anyone who is in office, it (four years) would be too
small because obviously, you have all manner of plans and things to
deliver. But my take is that the moment you have the right people and
you put the right structures in place, you can do a lot, and I think we
have been blessed with an incredibly good team,”
He said the present administration wanted to farther ahead in terms
of manufacturing. He however described them as infrastructure
constraints that cannot be developed overnight. This, he said, was why
the government was investing heavily in infrastructure; rail, road and
power.
“This is the significant part of the investment that we are doing;
concessioning the Lagos-Kano to General Electric, the narrow gauge,
developing the standard gauge is important in terms of just movement of
goods and all that. A lot of these initiatives would be a great help in
moving goods,” he added.