By David Okpashi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has charged All Progressives Congress, APC, controlled states and other governors to develop their various states and made them economically viable in other to justify their leadership responsibility.
This is even as the president has challenged the various state governors to emulate Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa’s industrialization drive which he said forms the basis for attracting investments to their respective States.
Tinubu who spoke at the two day investment summit organized by the Nasarawa State Government in Lafia Wednesday, said the only panacea for the governors to justify their leadership thrust is to develop their various states, make them economically viable. for the benefit of the citizenry.
Represented by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, the president noted that Nasarawa State was setting the pace for the industrialization of the state, attracting investors and investment to his state, urging other state governors to emulate the administration industrial drive.
President Tinubu added that the establishment of a lithium processing factory at Kama Otto in Nasarawa Local Government area of the state, recently commissioned has underscored the reputation of the State as an investment destination.
Earlier, Abdullahi Sule said the summit was organized to map out the future of the state economic landscape in her effort to explore business opportunities and forge investment partnerships across business endeavours.
He said the state organized the first edition of the Nasarawa Investment Summit in 2022 under the theme “Diamond in the Rough, the Making of a New Investment Frontier” with the aim of ushering in investment and showcasing and expose the available potentials including mineral resources in the state to potential investors, adding that the outcome of that summit informed the influx of investors into the state who are presently harnessing the resources.