National Summit at The Banquet Hall: Our Economic Reforms Are Working, All Progressives Congress (APC) Is Not A Failure – President Bola Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said the economic reforms of his administration are yielding the desired results. Speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Summit at the banquet hall of the State House in Abuja, Tinubu said the ruling party is not a failure.

“Two years ago, we embarked on this journey, propelled by a bus of hope and abiding faith in Nigeria. Together, we pledged to confront Nigeria’s challenges head-on by rebuilding the trust, fostering prosperity.

“Today, I am proud to affirm that our economic reforms are working. There’s nothing good that comes easily. The subsidy is gone and was gone for the good of this country,” he said.

After coming to office in May 2023, President Tinubu embarked on a deep economic reform programme, which the government and international financial institutions said was necessary to right the public finances of the continent’s most populous country.

But those measures – including liberalising the battered naira currency, and cutting fuel subsidies – have come at a cost for many ordinary Nigerians, who are facing the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Successive years of rising inflation and sluggish growth have raised poverty and hardship levels, the bank said, estimating that nearly half of all Nigerians lived in poverty in 2024.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said last month that the government’s tough economic reforms have yet to benefit the average citizen.

APC Endorses Tinubu
During the programme, the ruling party endorsed Tinubu as the party’s sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

APC National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje announced this at the event.

“As the chairman of the party and on behalf of the National Working Committee – the only recognised platform, I believe, legally, to field a candidate in any election – I hereby affirm the various endorsements and declare President Bola Tinubu as the sole presidential candidate of the APC,” Ganduje said at the programme attended by APC governors, ministers and other political heavyweights of the ruling party.