What was your $10 billion stimulus package supposed to achieve?
I proposed it as a comprehensive economic recovery programme to recapitalise the productive economy, restore exchange rate stability, reduce the cost of borrowing for your business, and create jobs across agriculture, manufacturing and technology. Many dismissed it as unrealistic and asked where the money would come from. That is what this plan was designed to do for you.
Where this comes from
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I wish to place this figure in concrete human terms. In the 2023 presidential election, I presented to Nigerians a comprehensive economic recovery programme anchored on a $10 billion stimulus package, an intervention designed to recapitalise the productive economy, restore exchange rate stability, reduce the cost of borrowing for Nigerian businesses, and create millions of jobs across the agricultural, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Critics and supporters of the Tinubu administration dismissed that proposal as ambitious, even unrealistic, asking where the resources would come from. The IMF has now answered that question. ₦8.8 trillion, the equivalent of approximately $5.5 billion at current exchange rates, was available. It was not unavailable. It was not non-existent.