By Osaretin Osadebamwen
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Spokesman,a Felix Morka, has defended President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies, saying the President deliberately chose to pursue difficult reforms rather than adopt populist measures designed merely to win public approval.
Morka said Tinubu’s objective was to address Nigeria’s fundamental economic weaknesses, even when the immediate consequences of the reforms proved painful for citizens.
According to him, the President “didn’t seek to be populist, to do what Nigerians wanted to hear, to just simply appeal Nigerians and score political points.”
Morka said the administration’s approach should be understood as an attempt to repair a fundamentally damaged economic structure rather than provide temporary relief that could leave underlying problems unresolved.
He argued that macroeconomic stability was essential to improving the economic circumstances of individual Nigerians.
“Macroeconomics is the superstructure of an economy. That’s where it happens,” Morka said.
He added: “If you don’t fix your macroeconomics like this President is fixing, you can never, not today, not tomorrow, not ever, have microeconomic conditions that are favorable to the people, to our people.”
Morka acknowledged that Nigerians were experiencing hardship but argued that the government’s economic restructuring had to precede the broader improvements citizens expected.
He compared the process to renovating a house, saying that disruption was inevitable when a fundamentally damaged structure was being rebuilt.
The APC spokesman maintained that Tinubu had accepted the political cost of pursuing reforms rather than abandoning them in response to public pressure.
“This President really took an oath to serve,” he said.
Morka also pointed to international assessments of the administration’s economic direction, arguing that the reforms had received significant recognition.
“Every Nigerian who is capable of objectivity has said that this President has done enormously well,” he said.
He maintained that the administration’s ultimate objective was not short-term political popularity but the creation of an economic foundation capable of delivering sustainable improvements in Nigerians’ living condition
