Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Hon. Aliyu Audu has asked promoters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to engage with more Nigerians 2025 and market President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s people-oriented policies ahead of May 29th as he clocks two years in office.
He made the appeal in a New Year 2025 message as a follow-up to a stakeholders’ progressive dialogue that took place from December 19 to 20, 2024 in Abuja to forge synergy between APC’s promoters and chief executives of the president’s signature programmes to boost the party’s support base across the country.
The event which featured chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Dr. Taiwo Oyedele, Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP), Engr. Uzoma Nwagba, MD/CEO of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Dr. Akintunde Sawyerr and the Project Director/CEO of the Presidential CNG Initiative (Pi-CNG), Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi was endorsed by participants.
The dialogue tagged: ‘’2-Day Progressive Dialogue on President Bola Tinubu’s Reforms’’, was organized by the Presidential Media Team (PMT), Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) and Progressive Reforms Advocacy Group (PRAG) with participants drawn from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and environs.
Hon. Aliyu Audu, who was convener of APC National Stakeholders Forum and APC Rebirth Movement as well as past APC Transition Committee member, said in his 2025 New Year message to the party’s promoters that President Bola Tinubu has provided sufficient evidence of performance in just 19 months in office.
His bold policies have crystallized with massive tangible results at home and abroad marked by huge foreign portfolio investments tumbling into country, he said, noting that debt obligations are being met to preserve Nigeria’s corporate integrity among nations.
According to Audu, about 23 per cent foreign reserves has surged into the country indicating $7.69 billion in one year (Year on Year) owing to the effective monetary and fiscal policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Government.
While CBN’s benchmarked interest rate management incentivized foreign exchange inflows, Federal Government’s improved activities in the non-oil sector and its powered oil production increases have changed the face of fiscal earnings into its coffers.
At the states and local government councils, humongous federation allocations are being received, some boasting of triple increases in their coffers enabling improved payments to local contractors while food prices are crashing as farmers now access their farms owing to increased security by our armed forces.
‘’The President’s bold economic policies continue to elicit praise. Food surplus is imminent with a recent delivery of 255 tractors to mechanize and transform agriculture. They are being distributed to farmers.
‘’The negative rhetoric and antics of opposition politicians misinforming Nigerians about the true state of things is fast evaporating. Nigeria is working by the optics. Available credible data shows that President Tinubu’s government is hitting amazing targets with the World Bank projecting a 3.5 per cent GDP growth in Nigeria’s economy in 2025 and a slight rise to 3.7 per cent in 2026.
‘’As Africa’s largest oil producer, Nigeria’s oil sector has seen a significant increase, rising in December 2024 by 6.3 per cent to reach 1.507 million barrels per day according to the just-released January 2025 Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) meaning that government is hitting higher oil production target after years of fluctuation.
‘’It’s a big good omen at a time the Nigeria Customs Service generated N6.105 trillion in 2024 to surpass its revenue collection target by 20.2 per cent. It’s our duty as APC image enhancers to run these facts in the public space and displace the naysayers and their toxic false narrative. Very soon, the Federal Government will distribute N75, 000 cash to 70 million Nigerians just as it has repatriated $52.88 million of looted funds from the United States recently.
‘’This 2025 is crucial in our strategic communication engagement with Nigerians. We must let k know how the President is working. Right now, President Tinubu’s leadership is increasingly sought in all the places- the West African region as ECOWAS chairman and around the world. He was the toast of the day in Ghana as special guest of honour at President Mahama’s inauguration recently.
‘’And just days ago, President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has promised to visit Nigeria soon following our president’s request, the first in UAE’s history. The UAE, specifically Dubai, is a preferred home to many Nigerians after the UK.
‘’Nigeria has indeed gained much in the last 19 months of the Bola Tinubu presidency. He has given us sufficient tools to market his achievements within such a short time’’, Aliyu Audu said.