A former Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Doyin Okupe, has described President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s reform agenda as the most credible compared to other presidential candidates in the 2023 presidential election.
Mr Okupe, a former spokesman for President Goodluck Johnathan, stated this while assessing Mr Tinubu’s administration’s reform agenda. Mr Okupe said that even though he did not support Mr Tinubu before the 2023 general election or belong to the ruling party, the president’s “reform agenda is the most credible.”
“The Renewed Hope Agenda he (Tinubu) brought is one that can address, and is addressing, the country’s current challenges,” Mr Okupe said. According to him, the president is meticulously applying the renewed hope agenda.
“Tinubu has a better policy document than any of his two rivals during the 2023 presidential election,” said Mr Okupe, who acknowledged that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an “experienced, knowledgeable and thorough-bred politician.”
“I know that for a fact that he also came with a testament that would have been binding on him and Nigerians. But when you put the testament side-by-side with the current reality on ground, it is not applicable,” the politician said.
He stated that Mr Abubakar’s testament, documents and preparations were hinged on some loans, which he thought he could use to sort out some things if elected, stressing they were all theoretical. Mr Okupe said this was especially so because, by the time President Muhammadu Buhari left office, no international financial institution was ready to lend Nigeria money again.
