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The Presidency has claimed Nigeria’s Chief of Staff, Bola Tinubu is currently focused on positively impacting the lives of citizens Nigerians and not the next general elections.
In a statement by the Special Adviser to Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare on X, the presidency said that Tinubu’s achievement would at the end of his tenure, be how he has been able to bring development to the economy.
The statement is coming after the growing political tension and economic hardship in the country.
Efforts to form a coalition that could challenge Tinubu in 2027 are on top gear, as former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, decamped from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
“President Tinubu is not worried about the next election, he’s worried about the shared prosperity that he can bring to Nigerians, the statement on X said.
“He’s worried about how the reforms he has put in place will yield the necessary impact. He is concerned about what happens to the economy of this country eventually. That’s the focus. “We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up.
“We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop. We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted -over 50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping,” he said.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has explained the rationale behind his administration’s economic reforms, saying the primary motive was protecting the interests of future generations.
A statement by spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, said the president spoke on Thursday at the State House in Abuja while receiving a delegation of former National Assembly colleagues from the aborted Third Republic, during which he served as a Senator representing Lagos West.
The president said for 50 years, Nigeria was spending money of generations yet unborn and servicing the West coast of the nation’s subregion with fuel, adding that it was getting difficult to plan for the future of Nigeria’s children
