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THE Presidency, yesterday, faulted the position of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, that the President Bola Tinubu istration has failed Nigerians.

Afenifere claimed that President Tinubu’s performance over the past two years had witnessed a regression in human development, economic mismanagement, and democratic backsliding.


However, the Presidency described Afenifere’s position as “a jaundiced view, echoing the view of opposition politicians, one of whom the group ed in the 2023 election.”

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Mr Sunday Dare, in a statement, said the Yoruba body has found it challenging to accept that under the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President, Nigeria’s comeback story is firmly underway.

Dare said: “The statement from a factional Afenifere group raises serious concerns about a penchant and deliberate attempt to find faults and trade in deceit instead of objectivity. The group has found it challenging to accept that under the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s comeback story is firmly underway.


“This is a jaundiced view, echoing the view of opposition politicians, one of whom the group ed in the 2023 election.

“A balanced assessment based on available data reveals a more objective and progressive picture, with significant achievements amid the challenges expected from a country like Nigeria with decades-old problems.

“Beyond its confounding conclusions based on prejudice, the statement raises the following issues. With the ensuing point-by-point clarification, it will become clear that the group’s position is neither grounded in facts nor logic.

“The factional Afenifere’s claim that Tinubu’s economic reforms, particularly the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira, led to ‘unmitigated sufferings’ and “economic deforms” seeks to draw attention to some of the challenges but overlooks the macroeconomic gains. The removal of the fuel subsidy, announced on May 29, 2023, saved the government over $10 billion in 2023 alone, reducing fiscal strain and redirecting funds to other sectors. Unifying the foreign exchange market and the naira’s floatation aimed to address distortions in the currency market, boosted foreign reserves to $38.1 billion by 2024 and achieved a trade surplus of N18.86 trillion for the country.”


In addition, the Presidential aide said: “It is now pertinent to inquire from opposition leaders about alternative strategies they would propose in contrast to this istration’s extensive list of significant achievements currently benefiting Nigerians in real-time.


[b]“The assertion that the Tinubu istration has failed to implement the Oronsaye Report and instead increased governance costs is inaccurate. The Oronsaye Report, which recommends the merger or scrapping of government agencies to reduce expenditure, has not been fully implemented and has drawn criticisms; it must be noted, however, that the istration has made some efforts to improve fiscal discipline.”

[/b]On the allegations of prebendalism and corruption, he said: “Afenifere’s claim that the istration favours ‘the privileged and connected’ through corrupt palliative distribution and mega-project allocations is questionable. Reports of palliatives being mismanaged or distributed through unverified channels have no doubt surfaced, raising concerns about transparency.

“Afenifere’s accusation that the Tinubu istration is pursuing a “one-party state totalitarianism” and undermining democratic institutions is uned and lacks merit. The claim of neutralising the legislature and judiciary is also a false alarm.

“The claims of government-sponsored conflicts within opposition parties lack concrete evidence and should be ignored.”

Source: https://vanguardngr.com/Presidency-to-Afenifere-Tinubus-economic-reforms-painful-but-necessary

The rate at which prices of goods and services skyrocketed these past 2years of Tinubu's istration is simply crazy.

Tinubu is wickedly impoverishing and strangulating Nigerians.
That should not be considered as Reforms.

Gibberish. Same trashy justification used to defend buhari is been regurgitated.

Bat and his cronies are carrying out reckless reforms because they have institutionally and corruptly insulated themselves from the negative consequences of those reforms and have also positioned themselves to benefit from it.

Granted, fuel and forex subsidies had to be addressed, but the way and manner bat went about it is reckless. Rather than tackle the causes of the inefficiencies of the subsidies (saboteurs, bottle necks, corruption, security issues etc), bat chose a path that favoured himself and cronies while disguising it as necessary for the masses when himself knows he won't suffer from such poorly thoughtout reforms.

Look at the cases of constituency projects and security votes that take hundreds of billions of naira from the public till. Every sane Nigerian knows these are funds looted, spent recklessly and have little positive impact on the masses. So why didn't bat cancel them?

Bat is a terrible and self centred person.

Yeah very painful but necessary
FG and other tiers gets more cash through subsidy removal and increased tax, more money to enjoy

State government gets more money to play around with and stuff into their pockets

LGA chairmen gets more allocation to enrich themselves

The common man pays more for everything, food, fuel, more taxation (banks are deducting money up and down) etc

While politicians are enjoying themselves and hailing tinubu, they are telling the common man to be patient and suffer more. Painful indeed

So yoruba Muslims visited Tinubu in Lagos to complain about appointment of other yorubas that are not Muslims, after one useless fool will come and tell you that yorubas are one and there is nothing like yoruba Muslims and yoruba Christians,

The Tinubu government keeps insisting that these reforms are “painful but necessary.” But necessary for who, and painful for whom?

When the burden of reform falls almost entirely on ordinary Nigerians while the political elite remain shielded by bloated allowances, extravagant lifestyles, rampant corruption, and unchecked government waste, what we’re witnessing isn't reform. It’s a redistribution of suffering.

True reform requires shared sacrifice, not selective punishment.

This Tinubu government is allergic to truth

No government will hate constructive criticism and yet succeed in delivering dividends of leadership to its citizens. APC just loves and applauds sycophants!

Una go explain tire, multi dimensional Poverty is the evidence 📌🤷

Healthy criticism and clear responses are signs of a working democracy. While Afenifere has every right to voice concerns, it's also fair that the Presidency defends its reforms. The truth likely lies in the middle—progress is being made, but challenges remain. What’s needed now is less blame and more collaboration to move Nigeria forward.

I disown being a Nigerian.

U mean the reforming of Nigeria to a hungry nation?

Under Tinubu, Nigeria has the most number of out of school children.
Nigeria has the worst case of maternal mortality in the world.
Nigeria is the country with the greatest number of poor people worldwide.
Nigeria is the most hungry nation on earth.
It is also the country with the highest level of insecurity worldwide. Worse than even Afghanistan and south Sudan.

Is this a record worth defending?

Nonsense

I am not going to judgement this morning but once upon a time, the istration of PMB said the same thing for years and we all know how that eventually turned out.🤷🏿‍♂️

no matter how much we lament about Tinubu, the fact is ONLY GOD can stop him from second term.

I say ONLY GOD because Nigerians are too docile to ever stand up against any government. We are masters of the art of suffering and smiling.

The best way to identify a failed government is how fast they rush to respond to every criticism. Like they have nothing better to do.

EyeCumInPeace:
The rate at which prices of goods and services skyrocketed these past 2years of Tinubu's istration is simply crazy.

Tinubu is wickedly impoverishing and strangulating Nigerians.
That should not considered as Reforms.

Did you vote for someone who promised to remove fuel subsidy and devalue the Naira? If yes, the person should have educated you about the consequences. Pain comes with such actions.

E painful for us but e no painful to who naa

Everybody suppose chop the pain together and enjoy together but na only who na they enjoy.

Talking in the Non.sense

Can other socio- cultural organisations say truth to president that come from their ethnic?


...... school for thought!

EyeCumInPeace:
The rate at which prices of goods and services skyrocketed these past 2years of Tinubu's istration is simply crazy.

Tinubu is wickedly impoverishing and strangulating Nigerians.
That should not considered as Reforms.

The man is just a demon seeking Nigerians blood
All this paid writers like dare and onanuga know nothing good can come out of these deform they call reforms but they have to earn their pay
It is Nigerians that should take charge of their lives ,take decisions base on what they experienced not what is being said about a future that is not guaranteed
They said more than this during buhari only for the same party to be telling us they rescued us from themselves, is it thesame party you want us to continue to trust,come in the future now,they will give us another LAMBA which they are very good at
Nigerians shine your eyes ,you can't trust these people

With cronyism, nepotism, Blatant corruption,Tinubu is not the messiah we have been craving for. His Government Should champion the course for electoral reforms. We wanna check something.

Au contraire, I think the presidency is disconnected from reality.
This government’s policies are not ‘painful’ but ‘lethal’ note the difference.
Painful policies do not lead to evaporation of the limited resources of the vulnerable in the society;
it does not put life saving medications, treatments and procedures out of the reach of citizens;
It does not stand idly and watch multinationals exit the country in their droves and do nothing to placate the exodus, which has caused marked unemployment;
It does not play ostrich with the lives of the people in the middle belt (where is their state of emergency?);
It does not increase the bureaucracy (new development commission) in government, worsening the deprivation of citizens by greedy politicians (only for a lunatic to bellow hold your politicians responsible, same politicians in the president’s political party shielded from their constituents by state security ex Yahaya bello);

So no… your policies are lethal to many Nigerians.

Tpain for a reason

Eight years of gnashing of teeth and misery

just like the devil, Tinubu came to destroy and inflict pain on the masses

while the elites cash out
padding budgets with trillions
borrowing with reckless abandon

Any er of this evil istration should look in the mirror

The dog that will be lost won't hear the hunter's whistle!

Nigerians its left for you to decide your fate and destiny in 2027 and 2027 election....if you still want to continue with the poverty, hunger, hardship, inflation, high costs of living, high rate of unemployment, insecurity or not?

Baxilexi:
Au contraire, I think the presidency is disconnected from reality.
This government’s policies are not ‘painful’ but ‘lethal’ note the difference.
Painful policies do not lead to evaporation of the limited resources of the vulnerable in the society;
it does not put life saving medications, treatments and procedures out of the reach of citizens;
It does not stand idly and watch multinationals exit the country in their droves and do nothing to placate the exodus, which has caused marked unemployment;
It does not play ostrich with the lives of the people in the middle belt (where is their state of emergency?);
It does not increase the bureaucracy (new development commission) in government, worsening the deprivation of citizens by greedy politicians (only for a lunatic to bellow hold your politicians responsible, same politicians in the president’s political party shielded from their constituents by state security ex Yahaya bello);

So no… your policies are lethal to many Nigerians.

God did not bless APC ers with a brilliant mind like yours, that is why they can't see that their government has mortgage their future, they can't appreciate the damage their government has done ,otherwise they will be in the forefront of the effort, to remove the imbeciles from power

He keeps using the word 'Reform' to minimise the damage he's doing to the people. How can every stupid decision be tagged a reform? They think that by calling it a reform it will not just sound but also become progressive?

There's no reformation in Agriculture, Education, Unemployment, etc., and the old man and his propaganda team wants us to look at his poor decisions as some form of reform. Which reforms exactly? Where? You are just inflicting pain on the country and talking about some imaginary reform.

disgruntled factional afenifere is not the main stream Afenifere

Afenifere of Farotimi is that one Afenifere?

Fashoranti faction is the real Afenifere that of Farotimi are obidient divisive Afenifere its null, void and extremely inconsequential.

Zionmdde:
Yeah very painful but necessary
FG and other tiers gets more cash through subsidy removal and increased tax, more money to enjoy

State government gets more money to play around with and stuff into their pockets

LGA chairmen gets more allocation to enrich themselves

The common man pays more for everything, food, fuel, more taxation (banks are deducting money up and down) etc

While politicians are enjoying themselves and hailing tinubu, they are telling the common man to be patient and suffer more. Painful indeed

. this Tinubu governance does not benefit the poor and common man...its benefits the wealthy and politicians and politicians in power

So they have started to it his policies are painful? I too know people them!