By Deborah Nnamdi
The Presidency has emphasized that President Bola Tinubu is not currently focused on the 2027 election but is instead concentrating on his economic policies designed to enhance the lives of Nigerians.
Sunday Dare, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, noted that Tinubu is more focused on the long-term benefits of his policies than on political strategies for the upcoming election.
In a post shared on his X page on Friday night, Dare outlined notable economic advancements under Tinubu’s leadership.
“President Tinubu is not worried about the next election. He’s worried about the shared prosperity that he can bring to Nigerians,” he wrote.
“He’s worried about how the reforms he has put in place will yield the necessary impact. He is concerned about what will happen to the economy of this country eventually. That’s the focus.
“We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up. We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop. We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted -over 50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping.
“We have clear data and you have a President that is clearly in the driver’s seat, and he has stayed the course of the decisions he has taken. And I think that the next election is not really in his view right now. It’s how to make sure that at the end of his first term, he can sit back and say, look, ‘I have impacted the lives of Nigerians. I have turned this economy around.’”
Dare’s statement comes amid growing political developments, including efforts to form a coalition that could challenge Tinubu in 2027.
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, a founding member of the governing party, All Progressives Congress (APC), has since departed from the APC to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after allegedly falling out of favor with Tinubu.
