Tinubu’ll reward your support, loyalty, Akinyemi assures artisans, technicians
President Bola Tinubu
Published By: Kazeem Ugbodaga
The Association of Nigeria Artisans and Technicians (ASNAT), has assured its members that President Bola Tinubu will reward them for their loyalty and support in the last presidential election.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday in Lagos, the National Coordinator of ASNAT, Comrade Adeshina Akinyemi, who also served as the National Director of the Directorate of Artisans and Technicians APC Presidential Campaign Council, established the fact that Tinubu’s policies and voyage of governance is using the right compass to navigate Nigeria out of her dwindling viruses.
He said: “Fuel subsidy has to end! Either now, later, or in the future. Everyone knows that fuel subsidy was a saturated fraud! And, the President acted well when he stopped it immediately after he assumed office.
“The single exchange rate formulated and introduced by President Tinubu has raised prospects of fiscal and external improvements in the country’s credit profile. Though the achievements of these policies might not have started to improve our lives and living, but gradually, with patience, we will start gaining from them and enjoy the fruits of our patience.
“Government policies don’t bring instant benefits; it takes time to plant, watered, to sprout and bear fruits, most especially when things were worst when this President took over the service of governance.”
Akinyemi further implored his 12.5million members cutting across 25 associations throughout the country to be patient with Tinubu and his young government.
He said: “I know it is frustrating and disappointing when one’s expectations are not met at the time expected; but, our hopes should be kept alive and kicking. The Renewed Hope understanding of our members was that their dreams, aspirations, needs and goals would be achieved and realised immediately after President Tinubu was sworn-in as the President.
“Some of us have worked with President Tinubu before when he was Governor of Lagos State and still remember vividly how he developed and supported the artisans and technicians in Lagos State then, and we believe he will repeat the same and even do much more better for us as President of the whole nation.
“It was on the premise of that trust and confidence that made us design Operation 30:30, a strategic voting pattern adopted by all Nigerian Artisans/Technicians to mobilise 30 Artisans/Technicians per polling booth to vote for Asiwaju which was done across the entire 176,864 polling booths across the country. That was where we got the 5.3 million votes promised and delivered to the President.
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“And, to our credit, we are the only Directorate out of all the Directorates set up by the Presidential Campaign Council that designed a pattern for our operations with a clear and sure expectant result. Even when there was no money from the PCC for logistics, we mobilised funds for the leadership to traverse every nook and cranny of the country to create awareness and imbued the projection of Operation 30:30 in our members across the country.
“Logistics in everything; money, materials, structures and supports were provided for our members across the entire country to help them carry out this assignment with ease.”
Speaking on some of the plans of Tinubu for artisans and technicians, Akinyemi declared that the president had promised to build the economy through the informal sector.
He said part of his reward plans was the recent partnership with the Bank of Industry (BOI) to unveil a N75 billion, nine percent interest rate loan which would be made accessible to all Nigeria Artisans/Technicians and other Entrepreneurs alike.
“Also is the N125 billion plan for MSME to ease this economic pain. We also have the Renewed Hope MSME program which is designed to provide interest and collateral-free loans to Artisans and others in the MSME categories.
“There is also the Skill Up Artisans (SUPA) program which is designed to boost the competitiveness of Nigerian Artisans/Technicians in the global blue-collar workforce. This programme will provide opportunities for 14000 of our members to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work and retraining.
“The CNG initiative of Tinubu’s administration is another big plan to reward our Auto Technicians members. This program plans to train one million of our Auto -Technicians members in the act of conversion and installation of CNG systems in vehicles,” he added.
