Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has rated President Bola Tinubu’s performance above that of every democratically elected president in Nigeria, saying the administration has rescued the country from an economic crisis inherited from previous governments.
Morka made the assertion during an interview with Channels Television while defending Tinubu’s economic policies and the administration’s record ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
‘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.
The APC spokesman said the evidence of Tinubu’s performance could be seen in the country’s macroeconomic indicators, insisting that the president inherited an economy that was in serious difficulty.
‘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 blamed previous administrations for the economic challenges confronting Tinubu on assumption of office, with particular criticism directed at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which governed Nigeria for 16 years before the APC took power in 2015.
He described former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as a transitional government that stabilised the country before Tinubu assumed office.
‘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,’ he added.
Morka further argued that Tinubu’s economic reforms had begun yielding results, particularly at the macroeconomic level. He said the country had ‘come out of the woods’ as a result of policies implemented by the Tinubu administration.
The APC spokesman’s assessment came amid intensifying political campaigns ahead of the 2027 elections, with the ruling party increasingly highlighting the government’s economic reforms as a major component of its campaign message.