All Progressives Congress National Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda has said President Bola Tinubu’s economic reform program had returned Nigeria to a stronger growth trajectory and restored international credibility to the country’s macroeconomic management, speaking at a workshop dedicated to developing a strategic communications framework for conveying the administration’s achievements ahead of the 2027 election cycle.
Yilwatda said the administration had inherited an economy constrained by an unsustainable fuel subsidy burden, multiple exchange rate windows that distorted the market, revenue leakages that weakened government finances, and debt servicing costs that consumed a substantial share of available revenue. He said Tinubu had chosen courage over political convenience in making the structural reforms that those challenges required, and that the results were beginning to manifest in measurable improvements that independent international institutions and major credit rating agencies had publicly acknowledged.
He cited foreign reserves exceeding $50 billion, a first-quarter 2026 trade surplus of N7.55 trillion, expanded government revenues through improved tax administration and the elimination of subsidy-related leakages, and increased allocations to states and local governments as concrete markers of the economic improvements. He said Shell’s renewed $20 billion investment commitment, after years of divesting from Nigerian operations, was among the most significant signals of returning investor confidence.
Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya, representing the Renewed Hope Ambassadors secretariat, said the administration’s communicators had to meet opposition disinformation with facts, despair with data, and cynicism with undeniable evidence of progress, describing what he characterized as a coordinated campaign by opponents to distort the public’s understanding of the government’s record.
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, who serves as Director-General of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors and Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, said the president’s performance would earn him a second term and urged the ambassadors to intensify grassroots engagement to ensure that the benefits of the reforms were understood at community level.
