As new policies are formulated, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has called on the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to prioritise food security, economic stability, amongst other pressing challenges of the citizens.
PFN made this call on Tuesday at a press conference addressed by the re-elected National President, Wale Oke and the new executives, at the secretariat in Lagos.
The body, which acknowledged the current exchange rate and fuel pump price, said that the instability in foreign exchange and escalating prices of goods and services after the current administration came to power, affected the nation’s economy and the common man in no small way.
On the closure of schools in the North because of the ongoing Ramadan fasting, the body asked that such be discouraged as it is not the practice in Saudi Arabia, where Islam originated from.
“The education of our children is fundamental to their progress and greatness of our nation and should not be tempered with.”
Oke who reacted to a question on the economy through the PFN National Treasurer, Samuel Aboyeji said: “Thank God the exchange rate is stabilising. Thank God prices are stabilising. Thank God the subsidy that was removed, the oil price and the fuel price is also responding by coming down.
“We believe that these are all in answer to prayers. As a Christian body, we are going to pray for wisdom for our president, that the Lord will continue to give him direction.
“But in whatever policy that the government wants to bring out, they should always take the common man into consideration.
“This is because the pain in the last six months or so has been very, very, very, very tough for the common man.
“We pray that the signs of improvement we are seeing in the economy will continue, so that these prices can further go down, particularly prices of food. Prices of food will further go down.
“The exchange rate will get further stabilized and the fuel price will also go down. I think when all these happen, there is no way and no doubt that the common man will be taken care of.”
