The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, says he is not under any pressure from any quarter to resign.
Osinbajo said this on Monday after a closed-door meeting with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He maintained that having been elected on the same ticket with President Buhari, there is no need to think of resignation.
Professor Osinbajo said that he had a lengthy telephone conversation with President Buhari earlier in the day and briefed him about the national economic plan to get the country out of recession.
In another development, the Acting President has told Nigerians who filed out today to protest the high cost of living and the economic crisis that government has heard them “loud and clear”.
Osinbajo spoke during a meeting between the Economic Management Team and the Private Sector on the Economic Recovery Growth Plan, which is to be launched later this month.
“We hear you loud and clear, those who are on the streets protesting the economic situation and even those who are not, but feel the pain of economic hardship. We hear you loud and clear. You deserve a decent life and we are working night and day to make life easier,” he said.
Osinbajo recalled President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement a few months ago on the economic crisis:
Buhari said then: “I know that uppermost in your minds today is the economic crisis, the recession for many individuals and families is real. For some it means not being able to pay school fees, for others it is not being able to afford the high cost of rice, millet, or of local or international travel. And for many of our young people the recession means joblessness, sometimes after graduating from university or polytechnic.
“I know how difficult things are, and how rough business is. All my adult life I have always earned a salary, and I know what it is like when your salary simply is not enough.
In every part of our nation people are making incredible sacrifices.”
According to Osinbajo, “The journey out of the damage caused by years of neglect and corruption is bound to be difficult but there is a glorious light at the end of the tunnel.
Let us work together, steadfastly and patiently for the economic change that will come very soon.” (NAN, Channelstv)