The Minister
of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has defended President Muhammad Buhari against
allegations of misogyny.
The claims had
become after the President has criticized a speech made by the First Lady,
saying she “belongs in my kitchen, and the living room, and the other room.”
“I think the
fact that he has appointed women into very senior positions says his view about
women. I work with him very closely and I don’t see any misogynistic tendencies
in him; in fact if for anything, I think he is very much in favour of women,”
she said on a BBC programme on Friday.
On the ongoing
recession, she said: “We have released about N720 billion in about four months
and that is the highest ever and we are still going to do more in investing in
infrastructure because that is what has held Nigeria back.”
“For a number
of years and almost for a whole generation we were moving in the wrong
direction depending on oil, we didn’t invest in infrastructure. And everyone
has known about the power challenges in Nigeria, the road challenges, the
health challenges and the only thing that was just keeping us up was the high
oil price and the high oil price has been stripped away and we have been laid
bare, so it is going to take a bit of time to recover.”
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