President Bola Tinubu today declared that the harshest phase of his economic reforms was over, telling Nigerians in his Independence Day broadcast that the country has moved from an age of reform into an age of prosperity, while issuing a pointed warning against politicians pushing for a return to fuel subsidies ahead of the 2027 general election.
Marking Nigeria’s 66th Independence anniversary, Tinubu used the nationwide address themed From Reform to Prosperity to defend the removal of petrol subsidy and the unification of the naira exchange rate, likening the country to a cancer patient who chose painful treatment over the morphine of denial administered by his predecessors.
The President insisted his administration’s reforms had not created Nigeria’s economic weaknesses but had confronted problems that previous governments postponed.
