A representative for President Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwala, has admitted that the economic changes enacted by the current administration have contributed to a greater number of Nigerians falling into poverty.
Despite the pain and suffering they caused, Bwala justified the reforms, arguing that they were essential to the country’s progress.
On Wednesday, he made an appearance on Politics Today on Channels Television. Reforms of this scale, in his view, could only be carried out with some degree of temporary hardship.
“Are you aware of the reason behind it?” The reason is that we implemented a change. “Reform does not come with convenience anywhere in the world,” Bwala declared.
He stated that the vast majority of Nigerians were living in poverty prior to the reforms implemented by the Tinubu administration.
“Until reform is implemented, we will not be able to make any progress, even though 230 million people are already living in poverty,” he stated.
According to Bwala, prior administrations were afraid of the public’s reaction and lacked the political will to implement such changes.
For fear of what you’re saying now, no president prior to President Tinubu had the guts to do it. Additionally, he mentioned that the president implemented such reform after stating that development is impossible.
According to the presidential spokesman, critics and opposition politicians should admit that the reforms made Nigerians poorer.
“Please, make no mistake—even to the opposition—the reason you have so many poor people and some of these pessimistic predictions is because we implemented a reform,” he admonished.
Even if more Nigerians are poor now than when the reforms started, Bwala maintained that the administration had made progress.
You can’t launch a reform like that in any region of the globe without encountering resistance, can you? More individuals fell into poverty. Taken note of. I’m not sceptical,” he declared.
As promised to the Nigerian people three years ago, we have made significant headway since the reform began, and here we are today.