Presidential aide tasks APC stakeholders to showcase Tinubu’s achievements

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Honourable Aliyu Audu, has urged stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress and ordinary party faithful to seize the initiative to showcase the achievements of the ruling party.

Audu made the appeal at the weekend while speaking at a dialogue tagged: “2-Day Progressive Dialogue on President Bola Tinubu’s Reforms.”

The event was organized by the Presidential Media Team (PMT) in conjunction with the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) and the Progressive Reforms Advocacy Group (PRAG), with participants drawn from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and environs.

Honourable Audu, who is the convener of the APC National Stakeholders Forum and the APC Rebirth Movement, maintained that President Bola Tinubu has provided sufficient evidence of performance in just 19 months in office.

Addressing the gathering, which included Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Dr. Taiwo Oyedele; Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP), Engineer Uzoma Nwagba; and MD/CEO of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), among others, Honourable Aliyu listed the achievements of the present administration, including significant foreign portfolio investments into the country, addressing debt obligations, an appreciable leap in foreign reserves, and increased activity in the non-oil sector.

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He said: “While the CBN’s benchmarked interest rate management incentivized foreign exchange inflows, the Federal Government’s improved activities in the non-oil sector and its powered oil production increases have changed the face of fiscal earnings into its coffers.

At the states and local government councils, humongous federation allocations are being received, with some boasting triple increases in their coffers, enabling improved payments to local contractors, while food prices are crashing as farmers now access their farms due to increased security by our armed forces.”

“The President’s bold economic policies continue to elicit praise. Food surplus is imminent, with a recent delivery of 255 tractors to mechanise and transform agriculture. They are being distributed to farmers.”

“The negative rhetoric and antics of opposition politicians misinforming Nigerians about the true state of things is fast evaporating. Nigeria is working by the optics.

Available credible data shows that President Tinubu’s government is hitting amazing targets, with the World Bank projecting a 3.5 per cent GDP growth in Nigeria’s economy in 2025 and a slight rise to 3.7 per cent in 2026.”

“As Africa’s largest oil producer, Nigeria’s oil sector has seen a significant increase, rising by 6.3 per cent in December 2024 to reach 1.507 million barrels per day, according to the just-released January 2025 Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR), meaning that the government is hitting higher oil production targets after years of fluctuation.”

Audu also recalled that “the Nigeria Customs Service generated N6.105 trillion in 2024, surpassing its revenue collection target by 20.2 per cent.”

The presidential aide further restated his appeal to the party chieftains to run the facts of the Tinubu administration’s landmark achievements in the public space and displace the naysayers and their toxic false narratives.

“This 2025 is crucial in our strategic communication engagement with Nigerians. We must let them know how the President is working.

Right now, President Tinubu’s leadership is increasingly sought in all places — the West African region as ECOWAS chairman and around the world.”

“Nigeria has indeed gained much in the last 19 months of the Bola Tinubu presidency. He has given us sufficient tools to market his achievements within such a short time,” Aliyu Audu said.

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE