President Buhari has revealed why he has no member of the private sector on his economic team.
He revealed the reason in an interview he granted a magazine, The Interview, reacting to allegations that he had no economic team.
President Buhari disclosed that he doesn’t have the likes of Dangote or Otedola on his economic team simply because he does not believe any of them would work with the interests of the nation at heart.
“The Vice-President heads our Economic Management Team.” He said
“You have Finance Minister, Budget and Planning Minister, Minister for Industry, Trade and Investments, Governor at the Central Bank, National Economic Adviser and others. Some still ask for a team. I don’t know how they define the word ‘team.’
“We will listen to everybody but we are averse to economic team whose private sector members frequently steer government policy to suit their own narrow interests rather than the over-all national interest.”