Presidency Rejects 'Nigerians Hate Tinubu claim, Defence Reforms
Presidency Rejects 'Nigerians Hate Tinubu' Claim, Defends Reforms
The Presidency has rejected claims by The Economist that Nigerians dislike President Bola Tinubu, describing the assertion as "intellectual fraud" and a distorted view of Nigeria.
In a statement on Tuesday titled ‘Beyond the Economist Condescension: Nigeria’s Re-engineering Under Tinubu is Unstoppable’, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, said the report smacked of opposition politics and was riddled with inconsistencies. 9799
Dare accused the British publication of analyzing Nigeria through a "cracked, distorted lens" from comfortable, insulated drawing rooms, trafficking in sensationalist half-truths and packaging localized administrative pains into a narrative of national rejection. 9799
"They love to peddle the lazy, hollow fiction that ‘Nigerians hate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,'" the statement said. "This is not merely analytical laziness; it is an intellectual fraud." 9799
He said the report ignored the monumental task of national salvage undertaken since May 2023 and the state of the economy inherited by the administration.
Defending the reforms, the Presidency pointed to fuel subsidy removal, foreign exchange unification, NELFUND student loans, new minimum wage, and efforts to grow forex reserves and trade surplus as evidence of progress. cece
Dare said Tinubu's stewardship can only be judged fairly against what he met, noting that past governments focused on symptoms while allowing structural weaknesses to deepen. The administration insists the painful reforms were necessary to correct distortions and that abandoning them would return Nigeria to addictive subsidies.
He added that transformative structural surgery is ongoing across the 36 states and the FCT.
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