Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has praised President Bola Tinubu for making remarkable progress in his 22 months in office, pointing out that Nigerians’ lives have improved since he assumed office.
Omokri also commended former President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent declaration of loyalty to the ruling All Progressives Congress, saying it contradicted former Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai’s claim that his recent defection to the Social Democratic Party had the former president’s blessing.
The former governor, who defected from the APC last week, claimed that he got the nod of the erstwhile president to make his move. However, Buhari’s media aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the former president remained loyal to the ruling party.
“My impression of General Muhammadu Buhari changed for the better after he released his statement restating his loyalty and commitment to the All-Progressives Congress, discountenancing Nasir El-Rufai, who had tried to use clever rhetoric to project the illusion that the former president was tacitly behind his move to the Social Democratic Party,” Omokri said in a statement.
He said the former president’s retention of loyalty to his party acknowledged the significant strides being made by his successor.
Omokri said Tinubu was taking Nigeria out of the woods, listing the president’s landmarks, “The Sokoto-Badagry Highway has reached Kebbi from Sokoto State and is progressing daily. The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is now approaching Ondo State. Fuel prices are down and still dropping to an average of N850 per litre.
“Four hundred thousand students are accessing student loans. The minimum wage is now N70,000. Food prices are dropping slightly, while inflation reduced significantly from 34.80 percent to 24.48 percent in January 2025. Power generation is at an all-time high of 6,003MW, the highest in our history.”
He added, “Federal allocations to states have doubled and, in some cases, tripled. Deaths from terrorism and insecurity are at their lowest level since 2014, even as our GDP grew by 3.8% in Q4 2024. Nigeria also recorded a 209.6% increase in its trade surplus to N18.86 trillion in 2024 from N6.09 trillion in 2023.
The former presidential aide stated that more regions had been given regional development commissions to accelerate zone development.
“Nigerians are earning more than they did in 2023. Students are learning more than they did in 2023. Nigerians are safer than they were in 2023. Nigeria generates more power than it did in 2023,” Omokri said.
