On Saturday, Biodun Ajiboye, the Executive Secretary of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation, argued with a journalist from ARISE Television on President Bola Tinubu’s accomplishments.
According to reports, Ajiboye claimed to be unaware of what was going on in Nigeria when questioned about the socioeconomic indicators of the current administration.
The head of the All Progressives Congress (APC) claimed that the journalist is ignorant of the events and changes under President Tinubu because she has restricted herself to the studio.
“You probably don’t know what is going on in Nigeria just because you’re constantly in the studio,” he remarked.
Ajiboye went on to discuss the positive things the party has accomplished, but he did not offer statistics on which socioeconomic indicators—such as life expectancy, maternal mortality, childhood education, poverty levels, and health outcomes—have improved under the President.
However, he pointed the finger at the late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, stating, “A lot of reasons account for the economic situation when you have the kind of economic confusion and doldrums that we had in Nigeria.” We had a great deal of economic uncertainty on several aspects.
“Our borrowings were skyrocketing, a subsidy was a cankerworm, we printed N30 trillion to inject money into the economy indiscriminately, and all of those were situations that needed a quick fix. There were situations that will exaggerate poverty, will exaggerate social protection, and so on.”
