The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that President Bola Tinubu has surpassed the performance of every democratically elected Nigerian president during their first terms in office.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made the assertion on Monday during an interview with Channels Television, where he defended the administration’s economic reforms and overall record.
Morka said the evidence of Tinubu’s achievements could be seen in the country’s economic indicators, despite the difficult conditions he claimed the president inherited.
“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.
Asked to identify the specific indicators behind the claim, Morka pointed to the broader state of the economy.
“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.
The APC spokesman attributed Nigeria’s economic difficulties to what he described as years of poor governance under previous administrations, particularly the 16-year rule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before the APC took power in 2015.
He described former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as a transition that prevented the country from sliding further into crisis and prepared the ground for Tinubu’s presidency.
“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,” Morka said.
“President Buhari served his term, did his job to hold the country still for President Tinubu to enter.”
Morka also defended Tinubu’s economic policies, arguing that the reforms had begun to stabilise the economy and produce improvements at the macroeconomic level.
He maintained that the results of the administration’s policies were becoming increasingly noticeable, including among some Nigerians who had initially criticised the government’s approach.
