Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi has said that he would reduced the cost of governing if he were Nigeria’s president.
Utomi made this statement during an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television.
He was speaking on the state of the nation.
According to him, it did not make sense to run a government at the expense of the masses who are facing hardship.
“I will still dramatically slice the cost of governing in Nigeria; it is way too high. I would use industry policy to stimulate production. We’re not doing enough to stimulate production.
“I’m not going to remove tax reforms. They are important. We need them, but I’m going to make sure that they are not revenues for people to spend. We need to look at constitutional reforms that limit how you spend.
“Those kinds of money you raise, We need a balanced budget. All of those are the issues we need to bring into consideration,” he said.
