Former Abia State Governor, Orji Kalu, has advised government to hands-off running businesses across the country and instead let them be driven by the private sector.
Kalu said this on Thursday in Lagos at the 2nd Annual Lecture of Swaaya Limited, publishers of FreedomOnline.
The former governor, who is now Senator-elect, also said at the event which was themed – Fixing the economy: Less politics, more substance – that it would be better for Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, to run businesses in the country than for the government to run one.
He said the government would do well as policy formulator and not implementer.
“We need to expand the economy for growth, and I have always argued that we need to remove every business from government for better economic performance.
“It is better for Aliko Dangote to own everything than government owning a business.
“It is not possible for government to do policy formulation and do policy implementation at the same time, so businesses are better left with the private sector,” he said.
Kalu also advised that the discourse in the country should be shifted to governance and no longer politics as elections have come and gone.
Former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, and Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba Land, Gani Adams, advocated for restructuring in their speeches at the event.
Present at the lecture were the president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina; President of Guild of Editors, Funke Egbemode; among others.
