Many Nigerians exhibit lack of memory. We forget where we started and blame Tinubu for Nigeria’s problems – Bayo Onanuga

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said that many citizens appear to have short memories, often blaming the president for all of the country’s challenges. He stressed that Nigerians should also acknowledge and give credit to President Tinubu for some of the key decisions he has made that are aimed at benefiting the nation as a whole.

”Many of us in this country, many Nigerians, we sometimes exhibit the problem of lack of memory, We have very short memory. We forget where we started from and just start blaming President Tinubu for all the problems that Nigeria is going through.

I remember in May 2023 when Tinubu took over government, there was fuel shortage in this country, people forgot that. All through the election that year, there was fuel shortage. So when the President announced the day he was sworn in that he was removing fuel subsidy, the immediate reaction by NNPC which has been the major supplier of fuel, was to increase the pump price because as at that time, NNPC was no more willing to import fuel. 

NNPC was saying the Federal government owed it over N4 trillion and it was also owing its suppliers abroad. What the Federal government did was to breathe some life into NNPC, to resume importing fuel so that fuel can be available. People forget that easily.

There was no way Nigeria could have sustained the regime of fuel subsidy. No way because the resources are just not there. ‘’