The All Progressives Congress (APC) has defended President Bola Tinubu’s performance in office, claiming that his administration has recorded greater achievements than those of previous democratically elected presidents during their respective terms.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made the claim while speaking on Channels Television, where he argued that the economic indicators under Tinubu reflected significant progress despite the difficulties inherited by his administration.
Morka listed former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari among those he said Tinubu had surpassed in performance.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has outperformed any president in his first term. He has outperformed any democratically elected president in this country in their terms,” he said.
When asked what benchmarks informed the assessment, Morka pointed to the economy, arguing that the figures and broader economic indicators provided evidence of the administration’s performance.
“The indicators are res ipsa loquitur as we say in law; they speak for themselves. This president inherited an economy that was completely in a mess,” he said.
He blamed the previous Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administrations for contributing significantly to the economic difficulties inherited by Tinubu in 2023.
Morka, however, gave a different assessment of Buhari’s administration, describing the former president as a “stopgap” leader who, according to him, prevented the country from sliding further after the PDP’s 16-year rule.
“Buhari was a stopgap president that really came to keep the country from tipping over the precipice — from 16 years of horrific maladministration of the PDP government,” he said.
“President Buhari served his term, did his job to hold the country still for President Tinubu to enter.”
The APC spokesman also defended the reforms implemented by Tinubu, particularly the removal of petrol subsidy and changes to the foreign exchange system, arguing that the policies were necessary to correct structural weaknesses in the economy.
According to him, the reforms have begun to produce positive results at the macroeconomic level, despite the hardship they have caused households and businesses.
“We have come out of the woods at the macroeconomic level,” Morka said.
His comments come amid sustained political debate over the impact of Tinubu’s economic policies, with opposition parties and critics questioning whether improvements in macroeconomic indicators have translated into better living conditions for Nigerians.
Tinubu assumed office in May 2023 after winning the presidential election and has since pursued a series of reforms aimed at reshaping Nigeria’s fiscal, monetary and foreign exchange systems.
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