Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has commended the economic drive of Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu in the buy Made-in-Nigeria goods campaigns, saying that Nigeria had no business with China if Aba was generally developed.
Osinbajo also said Aba was very strategic and important to the country in terms of manufacturing and production.
The Acting President disclosed this when he received a delegation of some top functionaries of Abia State Government, Aba businessmen and industrialists led by Governor Ikpeazu and the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments, Okey Enalemah at the Presidential Villa in Abuja .
The meeting which dealt on the measures to fully realize the potentials of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs in the country was a follow up to the launch of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs in Abuja and Aba, on the 24th and 26th of January 2017 by the Acting President.
Earlier Governor Ikpeazu stated that If Aba is giving the needed and adequate attention, which include infrastructural and human capacity development, it has the potential and capacity as the SME capital of Nigeria, to position Nigeria as truly the giant of Africa.
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