Bola Ahmed Tinubu: Doyin Okupe replies Afenifere, says ‘economic turnaround now observable’

According to Dr. Doyin Okupe, a former presidential spokeswoman, current economic statistics indicate that the country’s economy is starting to revive and that a clear turnaround is now evident.

This statement was made by Okupe, a former director-general of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization, during a Thursday interview in Lagos with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He was responding to Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, which had criticized President Bola Tinubu for the socioeconomic difficulties facing the nation.

According to NAN, Afenifere voiced concerns on Wednesday over what it called the economy’s impending collapse.

The Yoruba group expressed the concern in a communique issued at the end of its quarterly meeting held in Ogun .

In the communique, signed by its Deputy Leader, Chief Oladipo Olaitan, and Deputy Secretary-General, Mr Alade Rotimi-John, the group said that the state of the economy had left the people perplexed with hardship.

Reacting, Okupe said that Afenifere spoke well about the current socio-economic challenges, but its response was belated.

“It is commendable that Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation and now political group, has always lived to its nationalistic stance.

“This it does by criticising the government of the day even though a Yoruba man, Asiwaju Tinubu, is the current President of the country.

“This is one of the outstanding and commendable attributes of the Yoruba people as a race and Afenifere has been consistent in this patriotic display of true nationalism.

“However, while it is true that the country and its citizens are undergoing very harsh socio-economic conditions, principally because of strong and brave economic policies put in place to correct the economic quagmire brought on the country by the previous administration’s economic indicators show that the economy is beginning to make a recovery and an obvious turn around is now clearly observable,” Okupe said.

According to him, all hands must now be on deck to support the administration to succeed in its efforts to revamp the economy