President Bola Tinubu welcomed Aminu Alhassan Dantata, Chairman of the Dantata Group of Companies, to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Naija News reported that the Nigerian leader received the prominent businessman and elder statesman during a courtesy visit at the State House.
Dantata, who celebrated his 93rd birthday on May 19, is the patriarch of the Alhassan Dantata family in Kano State. As of the time of filing this report, the details of the meeting remain unknown.
See photos from the visit.
Isa Yuguda, a former governor of Bauchi State, has asserted that President Bola Tinubu should not bear the blame for Nigeria’s current hardships and high inflation. Yuguda argued that Tinubu’s implementation of drastic measures and reforms, such as the removal of fuel subsidy and floating of the naira, prevented the country from facing even greater challenges.
Speaking at the first edition of the Asiwaju Scorecard Series organized by the All Progressives Congress Professionals Forum, Yuguda emphasized that the economy was already in dire straits before Tinubu assumed office. He highlighted that Tinubu inherited numerous burdens, including the subsidy scam, widespread corruption in the civil service, and the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 lockdown, during which the country allegedly spent billions of naira to subsidize domestic fuel consumption despite low demand.