As Nigerians look back on President Bola Tinubu’s two years in office, some strong opinions have been shared about how people view his leadership. One of his top aides, Bayo Onanuga, believes Nigerians are forgetting where the country started and are unfairly blaming Tinubu for everything that’s wrong in Nigeria today.
Bayo Onanuga, who works as the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Tinubu, shared his thoughts during an interview on Arise TV on the evening of Friday, May 30. He said many people seem to have short memories and are acting as if Nigeria’s problems began the moment Tinubu became president.
He pointed out that Nigeria has been facing serious challenges for many years, and it’s not fair to place all the blame on the current administration. According to him, Tinubu walked into a difficult situation and has had to make tough decisions to fix things.
During an interview with Arise TV on Friday night, May 30, Onanuga said;
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‘’Many of us in this country, many Nigerians, we sometimes exhibit the problem of lack of memory, We have very short memory. We forget where we started from and just start blaming President Tinubu for all the problems that Nigeria is going through.
I remember in May 2023 when Tinubu took over government, there was fuel shortage in this country, people forgot that. All through the election that year, there was fuel shortage. So when the President announced the day he was sworn in that he was removing fuel subsidy, the immediate reaction by NNPC which has been the major supplier of fuel, was to increase the pump price because as at that time, NNPC was no more willing to import fuel.
NNPC was saying the Federal government owed it over N4 trillion and it was also owing its suppliers abroad. What the Federal government did was to breathe some life into NNPC, to resume importing fuel so that fuel can be available. People forget that easily.
There was no way Nigeria could have sustained the regime of fuel subsidy. No way because the resources are just not there. ‘’
Onanuga also urged Nigerians to give credit where it’s due. He believes President Tinubu has made some important decisions that will benefit the country in the long run, even if they are not popular right now. He said people need to be more understanding and appreciate the efforts being made to improve Nigeria.
