Tinubu’s first-term record outperforms all elected presidents — Felix Morka

By Tolulope Oke

All Progressives Congress National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, has declared that President Bola Tinubu has outperformed every democratically elected president Nigeria has produced.

Morka made the claim during an interview on Channels Television while defending the Tinubu administration’s economic record and the reforms introduced since it assumed office.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has outperformed any president in his first term. He has outperformed any democratically elected president in this country in their terms,” Morka said.

Asked to identify the indicators supporting his assessment, the APC spokesman argued that the evidence was already visible in the economy.

“The indicators are res ipsa loquitur, as we say in law; they speak for themselves. This president inherited an economy that was completely in a mess,” he said.

Morka maintained that Tinubu inherited deep economic problems accumulated over successive administrations and had taken difficult decisions aimed at restoring stability.

He particularly blamed the 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party rule for many of the structural problems confronting the country before the APC took power in 2015.

The APC spokesman also offered an assessment of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in office, describing him as a leader who prevented the country from sliding further before Tinubu took over.

“Buhari was a stopgap president that really came to keep the country from tipping over the precipice — from 16 years of horrific maladministration of the PDP government,” Morka said.

“President Buhari served his term, did his job to hold the country still for President Tinubu to enter.”

According to him, the reforms undertaken by the current administration have begun to pull Nigeria away from severe macroeconomic difficulties.

Morka said improvements in key indicators were becoming increasingly difficult to ignore, adding that even some critics of the administration had begun acknowledging progress in parts of the economy.

He maintained that Nigeria had “come out of the woods” at the macroeconomic level, attributing the development to policies implemented by the Tinubu government.

The APC has continued to make the administration’s economic record a central part of its argument for Tinubu’s re-election in 2027, insisting that the impact of the reforms will become increasingly evident to Nigerians.