Nigeria is a country of hardworking people, abundant resources and enormous potential. Yet too many Nigerians work hard without getting ahead.
Resetting the economy means changing the systems that make it unnecessarily expensive to live, produce, move goods, run a business and create jobs.
We will focus on three things.
The cost of living is affected by more than the price of goods at the market.
Poor infrastructure, unreliable energy and expensive transportation add costs at every stage—from production to the final price paid by the consumer.
We will focus on reducing these underlying costs so that economic growth translates into better living standards for Nigerians.
Infrastructure should do more than exist. It should enable economic activity.
We will prioritise infrastructure that connects farms to markets, businesses to customers, workers to opportunities and production centres to the wider economy.
We will measure success not simply by kilometres of roads constructed, but by what those investments achieve: shorter journeys, lower logistics costs, increased investment and greater economic activity.
The government should enable enterprise, not create unnecessary friction.
We will simplify interactions between citizens, businesses and government, improve coordination between public institutions and use technology to eliminate unnecessary duplication.
Our principle is simple: Tell the Government Once. Information legitimately supplied to one government institution should not have to be repeatedly supplied to others where government systems can securely share it.
In Oyo State, infrastructure planning has increasingly focused on connecting economic activity rather than treating individual projects in isolation.
Road investments have been used to connect communities, markets and economic zones, improve movement across the state and open new areas to investment.
The Reset Agenda will take the lessons from what has worked, examine what can work at national scale and apply them to Nigeria’s larger economic challenges.
