Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has talked about the economy.
Goldennewsng reports that the minister said yesterday the nation’s economy was doing well under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration than previous governments.
She also explained the depletion of Excess Crude Account, ECA, saying it had not been funded for sometime.
Mrs. Ahmed stated this after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.
Asked the current status of the economy, she said: “Thank you for that question. First of all, let me address a question on the issue of the economy, as to whether the administration has done well. The administration has done very well.
“I need to remind us all here that in 2015, the administration came on and met a crisis in the oil and gas sector; we had the first slump in crude oil prices and a very significant slump in crude oil production.
“There was a time the volumes went as low as one million barrels per day. We were able to take measures to reflate the economy and exit recession within three quarters. By the fourth quarter, we were out of recession.
