APC, ADC Clash Over Tinubu’s Economic Performance

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the conjugation absorption party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), person disagreed implicit the authorities of the system nether President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

While the APC said Nigeria’s system present has beardown macroeconomic foundations, the ADC said nary medication has inflicted much hardship connected mean Nigerians than the incumbent.

Both, however, saluted Nigerians’ spot and resilience and hailed the struggles, patriotism, and sacrifices of the nation’s founding fathers.

Both parties made their claims successful their messages to Nigerians connected the 65th Independence Day day connected Wednesday.

The APC, portion congratulating each Nigerians connected the juncture of the nation’s 65th independency anniversary, said it is simply a caller dawn of large and infinite possibilities successful the onward march of progress.

APC nationalist publicity caput Felix Morka said that contempt the hard challenges, the federation has continued to triumph owed to the coagulated will, perseverance, sacrifices, resilience, and self-evident patriotism of citizens.

“Today, we particularly observe each Nigerians for their abiding faith, assurance and committedness to peace, unity and advancement of our beloved country.

“There is nary amended clip to beryllium optimistic astir the prosperity of our state than now. Despite the flaws and missed opportunities of bygone governmental eras, a caller dawn present breaks implicit our country, heralding brighter days for our radical and a vibrant aboriginal for our country.

“Our vessel of state, nether the hands of the inimitably bold and visionary president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, present sails confidently successful dependable and calmer waters connected a charted people to a wide destination of stability, growth, and development, anchored firmly connected coagulated economical foundations.”

The APC spokesperson remarked that President Tinubu courageously initiated reforms connected time 1 to reset the system and unleash its imaginable for accelerated recovery, stability, and wholesome development. These reforms included ending the ruinous substance subsidy authorities and unifying arbitrary aggregate overseas speech systems.

“Although these inevitable reforms brought archetypal and transient discomforts to Nigerians, today, our state is amended for it. All applicable economical markers present amusement an system lasting connected beardown macroeconomic foundations and delivering aboriginal yields of improved worldly conditions for our people, and renewed anticipation for a bountiful future.

“As Mr President has stated, the system has turned the corner. Our state has go a nett exporter, posting accordant commercialized surpluses successful the past 5 quarters. Non-oil gross has surged, conscionable arsenic lipid accumulation has reached grounds levels.

“The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.28 per cent successful Q2 of 2025, the highest successful 4 years, dwarfing the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) forecast of 3.5 per cent. Our overseas reserve has climbed to implicit $42 billion, portion ostentation has crashed to 20.1 per cent, the lowest successful caller times.

Aside from terminating the insidious Means and Ways financing of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the President Tinubu-led medication has reduced the revenue-to-debt-servicing ratio from astir 97 per cent to little than 50 per cent.

“The Tax-to-GDP ratio has deed 13.5 per cent, up from astir 10 per cent. The volatility of our section currency has ended arsenic the naira has gained stability, restoring and boosting capitalist confidence.

“With unprecedented uptake successful infrastructural investment, the gyration successful the cultivation and originative manufacture sub-sectors is creating monolithic occupation opportunities, and the sustained warfare against insurgency and corruption means our federation stands connected the cusp of historical advancement,” helium said.

However, countering the claim, ADC’s nationalist publicity caput Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said that astatine 65 years old, the federation is staggering nether the failures of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC.

Abdullahi said, “We look an acute convergence of crises: economical hardship, spiralling insecurity, and a increasing nonaccomplishment of nationalist religion successful government.”

According to him, the committedness of “renewed hope” that Tinubu and his APC campaigned connected has fixed mode to wide disillusionment, arsenic the reforms undertaken by his medication person destabilised millions crossed the state by compounding inflation, crushing idiosyncratic purchasing power, and triggering a question of societal symptom that the authorities has failed to cushion.

Abdullahi went on: “Insecurity remains possibly the astir damning indictment of the APC’s misgovernance. Despite years of propaganda astir restoring peace, Nigeria continues to bleed crossed aggregate fronts.

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