Benin City — As the nation gears up for activities in the new year, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State and the Chairman of the state Economic Team, Godwin Obaseki, at the weekend said 2016 would be tough for Nigeria financially, hoping however that states like Edo and others that have been able to develop prudent financial administration would be able to stand the test and eventually progress. Obaseki stated this at the state secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) when he hosted journalists in the state to an end of year party.
According to him, "I am coming here to felicitate with the fourth estate of the realm. It is quite easy for us to forget in a hurry where we are coming from. Today is December 31, 2015 and we all are seated in a country call Nigeria. We have almost forgotten that they almost plunged this country into chaos and we have almost forgotten what God has done for us as a country and as a people by still keeping us as one in spite of what we went through. "We have so much to be grateful to God for. Look at the criticism you were subjected to both from the opposition and the then ruling party but you survived so there is much for us to celebrate." He therefore called for hope ahead of the challenges in the new year, saying "As we look forward towards 2016 and even though 2016 does not portend the kind of crisis we anticipated in 2015, 2016 itself also has its own challenges. There is no gainsaying that we are in a recession and recession is going to bite harder in 2016. Things will be difficult for us as individuals, family, community even as a state and also as a country.
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