Bayo Onanuga the Special Adviser on Media and Information Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, has told Nigerians to lower their expectations on the current administration as two years are not enough to judge the government.
Onanuga, who gave the admonition during an interaction with journalists in Lagos on Sunday, said though things look bleak at the moment, Nigerians would soon experience the positive effects of the administration’s economic reforms and policies across all segments of the nation.
Onanuga reiterated that the two years that Tinubu has been in power is an insufficient yardstick to fully measure the administration’s achievements, noting that policy experts typically assess the impact of policies over a period of 10 years to 12 years.
“The President’s years in office began with clear policy directions and implementation,” Onanuga said.
He highlighted that Tinubu had not only introduced progressive reforms but had also tackled challenges that previous administrations avoided.
“A lot of reforms have taken place across sectors. The president has laid down many fundamentals that would ensure growth,” he stated.
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The presidential spokesman further noted that while the positives of the president’s actions over the past two years were gradually trickling down, a significant paradigm shift had occurred in the economy, addressing many pre-existing problems, giving specific example with the situation in the country before the removal of fuel subsidy by the Tinubu administration.
“There was no fuel. Many stations were saying no fuel, no fuel. What was happening at that time was that the NNPC had reached the bottom point.
“It had no money to import fuel, it claimed that it was owing suppliers about six billion dollars and the government was owing it about four trillion dollars. So, it could not import any more.
“Nigeria has abundant resources that we are harnessing, but not as much readily available money as people might think.
“This economy has opened up opportunities in many forms for Nigerians. Those who can really exploit it. And they are making money.
“We don’t do our people any good when we keep on pushing stories of gloom and doom without allowing them to see the truth, without allowing them to see the context, and without allowing them to know that there’s actually light at the end of the tunnel.”
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