You prepared reactions before President’s speech — Onanuga slams Tinubu’s critics

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has deed backmost astatine politicians who criticised the President’s Independence Day speech, accusing them of ignoring his presumption connected economical reforms.

​In a station connected Friday, Onanuga said immoderate of the politicians had prepared their reactions earlier Tinubu delivered the October 1 address.

He said they ignored what helium described arsenic an “immutable truth” successful the President’s speech.

Quoting Tinubu, Onanuga wrote, “Our reforms did not make the weaknesses successful our economy. They confronted them.”

Tinubu had warned against calls to wantonness the reforms and instrumentality to subsidies, describing specified appeals arsenic a “siren song” and the subsidies arsenic “addictive.”

The President besides claimed that Nigeria’s system had grown by implicit 4 per cent successful 2026, with some the lipid and non-oil sectors contributing to the growth.

“Our system has grown by implicit 4 per cent this year. Both lipid and non-oil sectors person contributed to the renewed play of unchangeable growth,” Tinubu sa...