The presidency has stressed that President Bola Tinubu is not focused on the 2027 election but rather on implementing economic policies that will improve the lives of Nigerians.
Tinubu’s special adviser on media and public communications, Sunday Dare, indicated that the president is more concerned with the long-term consequences of his programs than with political manoeuvring ahead of the next election.
Dare highlighted important economic accomplishments made under Tinubu’s leadership in a Friday night post on his X page.
“President Tinubu is not worried about the next election. He’s worried about the shared prosperity that he can bring to Nigerians,” he wrote.
“He’s worried about how the reforms he has put in place will yield the necessary impact. He is concerned about what happens to the economy of this country eventually. That’s the focus.
“We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up. We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop. We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted—over 50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping.
“We have clear data, and you have a president that is clearly in the driver’s seat, and he has stayed the course of the decisions he has taken. And I think that the next election is not really in his view right now. It’s how to make sure that at the end of his first term, he can sit back and say, Look, I have impacted the lives of Nigerians. I have turned this economy around.”
Dare’s statement comes amid rising political tensions, including efforts to build a coalition to confront Tinubu in 2027.
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, a founding member of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has now defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after allegedly falling out with Tinubu.
