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Mr Godwin Emefiele
By Nuhu Adamu
The Northern Youth Forum has described Mr Godwin Emefiele as the bedrock for national unity to exemplary leaders.
The spokesperson of Unified Northern Nigeria Youths Forum. Aliyu Muhammad Sani made the comments while briefing newsmen in Damaturu, Yobe State, saying that the Anchor Borrowers Program alone is successfully strengthening our economy by creation of millions of jobs especially in Northern Nigeria.
“The time and energy we are putting to move from state to state in consulting with relevant stakeholders who have shown us undiluted support and have voice out their hopes of seeing Dr. Godwin Emefiele as President of the Federal Republic on Nigeria has already reached a point of no return”, Sani said.
According the statement, Nigeria as a nation is being ruled by two blocks, North and South, for equity, justice peace, tranquility and brotherhood, this has kept the spirit of love, political participation and understanding among Nigerians especially the elite on how power will be rotated evenly among the two blocks and who will get what, where and when.
Sani said it would be of grave misunderstanding and an art of un- patriotism for any Northerner to think or nurse ambition of succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari as the country is governed between the regions.
He said that, fertiliser remains a key input to achieving food security and in realization of this, the central bank has continued to place great importance on its availability and accessibility by farmers to improve yield, productivity and ultimately, output.
On CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), Dr Godwin Emefiele Stated that the Bank has disbursed N941.26bn to 4.2million smallholder famers cultivating 21 agricultural commodities on 5.4million hectares of land across the country. He equally added that for the 2021 wet season Programme, a sum of N193.59bn was shared to 923,699 farmers cultivating seven commodities on 1.16 million hectares of land.
The good policies initiated by Dr. Godwin Emefiele on the Presidential fertilizer initiative recently has led to the establishment of two big fertilizer factories including Barbedos blending plant in Kaduna and Dangote Urea plant in Lagos.
He said that, the entire people of Yobe state, know that, Agriculture remains the major employer of labor mostly for the Northerners and Nigeria at large. It is also on record that, no CBN Governor in Nigeria has ever invested so much in agriculture like, Dr. Godwin Ifeanyi-Chukwu Emefiele.
He, also Highlighting some of the CBN’s interventions as initiated by the Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele, include; the Real Sector Support Facility, Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme, National Food Security Programme and the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI).
However, under Dr. Godwin Emefiele’s stewardship, CBN also disbursed a total of over N114.09bn to support the fertiliser industry in the last five years. These innovative interventions were long-term loans at concessionary interest rates to support domestic blending and distribution of fertilizer.
