The committee is to ensure that the Medium-Term National Development Plan, MTNDP, succeeds the Vision 20:2020 and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP 2017–2020.
The team will be jointly chaired by Atedo Peterside and the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.
The main objectives of these Successor Plans are to lift one hundred million Nigerians out of poverty within the next ten years, particularly given the World Bank’s projection that Nigeria will become the world’s third most populous country by 2050 with over four hundred million people.
President Buhari noted that it had become necessary to develop successor plans to the Nigeria Vision 20:2020 and the ERGP, which will lapse in December, to ensure continuity and efficiency in the country’s development planning.
On the mandate of the members, President Buhari said it would oversee governance structure comprising the Central Working Group and 26 Technical Working Groups for the important national assignment.
