Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has said his experiences as one of the leading figures in thriving conglomerates in the country and abroad were enough to prepare him for the leadership of the state.
He said such experiences were the reasons why Nasarawa, a hitherto rural state, had transformed into one of the leading investors’ destinations in the country.
He spoke at the opening of retreat organised for permanent secretaries on policy formulation and implementation in Akwanga local government area of the state.
He said he assumed office with a development blueprint which he had been diligently implementing, noting that the Nasarawa Economic Development Strategy (NEDS) document had greatly impacted on the state’s economy and other sectors.
“The NEDS document is a policy document. And there was no way I would just jump in from all the big companies that I have ran without some kind of policy document,” he said.
He added that though the NEDS document was meant to cover the period from 2019 to 2023, there was still room for new initiatives, with his administration now focusing on implementation and monitoring.
“We left room for new things that we are going to do. In the new policy that we are putting together, most of the things are going to be on implementation of what we have done and monitoring to see if what we have done is right.
That is just what is new that we are adding to the policy. But our policy really remains the same,” he said.
Governor Sule explained that in spite of the challenges confronting the state, some of the benefits of the reforms and policy directions initiated by his administration have begun to bear positive results.