The National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka has said that President Bola Tinubu stake his 2027 political interest to address Nigeria’s foundational problems.
He said the President did this by embarking on policies that made him unpopular including removal of fuel subsidy.
Morka stated this on Thursday in Abuja while addressing a press conference to commemorate the second year anniversary of the Tinubu-led government.
The spokesperson stressed that while all the president that came before him postpone the doomsday, Tinubu took the bull by the horn rather than mortgaging the future of the unborn generation.
His words: “In two years of this administration, we made clear that this president has enacted a vision and proclaimed a mission to tackle problems that were created generationally in our country. All of the difficulties we speak about today didn’t drop from the sky. They were long in coming.
“As I said, all the presidents who came before this president preferred to simply postpone the doomsday. Because we didn’t just wake up in the last two years to realise that fuel subsidy was a destructive device in our country.
“Our government was already completely mortgaged to these serious national economic commitments. The debt servicing and the subsidy regime. Now, how can anyone, any country, survive on that money? It was completely unsustainable.
“The difference between President Bola Tinubu and the rest of them was that this president, once he was inaugurated, he took an oath and said, you know what, enough. He knew, and we know, that doing what this president has done would likely make him unpopular in the beginning, which we are all witnesses to.
“However, that calculation and the significance of that to the electoral prospects of 2027 did not stop him because he decided to put the strategic best interest of our country over and above his own electoral calculation.
“So when the opposition simply bandy stories around, oh things have happened, rice has gone up and all that, that’s why the president is on the top, because he knew that was going to come.
“And he was willing to stake highly so our country can have that shot at not just recovery, but some serious foundational repair that can then support rapid growth and prosperity down the road. So this is a sacrificial president who is willing to stake even his own political interests for Nigeria.”