President Bola Tinubu has challenged Nigerians to judge his administration strictly by its record of delivery. He recently had his say when he launched the Presidential Pension Security Initiatives at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Represented by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Tinubu told opposition figures seeking to unseat him in the January 2027 presidential election to present their own records on pension delivery rather than campaign on promises.
Defending his 2023 decision to remove fuel subsidy and unify the foreign exchange rate, BAT added that both choices were made in the national interest.
His words, “Please judge me by my record in this election. As governor of Lagos State, when the local government allocations were withheld, the state and the local government did not collapse.
Instead, the state grew, and the local government blossomed. And as President, arrears and pensions were raised, and credit was opened to guarantee minimum pension.
Do not listen to what they promise. Promises are free. Look at what they did when they were in power in the past. Some of them were even governors, and one of them was vice president of this country for eight years. So let them answer three questions: Which retiree did you guarantee? Which pensioner did you insure? And which floor did you erect for them to stand on?
I said three words that no President before me had dared to say: subsidy is gone. They said those three words would finish me. I said them anyway, because a leader who is afraid of the truth has no business asking for your mandate.
A law that is never implemented is not a law. It is a lie with a stamp on it. Today, I dare say that lie ends here.”
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