We Insist That Tinubu Is A Catastrophic Failure As President- Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign
OUR SDP BLUEPRINT BEST FOR NIGERIA’S QUICK RECOVERY AND PROGRESS
The current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu typifies a historic and unprecedented leadership failure in all ramifications. And we insist that there is no justification whatsoever for the Tinubu administration to shepherd Nigeria in this destructive path that engineers and worsens the socioeconomic conditions of Nigerians on a daily basis.
Scientific assessments regarding the administration of President Bola Tinubu reveal a variety of critical policy failures, economic illiteracy, and governance mediocrity. This is one conclusion that all Nigerians across every stratum of society irrespective of political persuasion form a national consensus.”
An overview of this President’s over three years in office reveals several and specific failure points that are clearly visible to see.
To start with, our Campaign maintains that the abrupt elimination of the petrol subsidy on inauguration day by the president caused an immediate, massive hike in transportation and production costs across the nation. That precipitate action remains the singular misstep that has further exacerbated the multidimensional poverty status of Nigeria that is responsible for why Nigerians go to bed hungry and suffering during the day.
Secondly, the Naira floating and devaluation regime is a fiscal disaster. Unifying the foreign exchange windows without structural buffers led to a steep depreciation of the Naira, crashing past ₦1,500 per USD and increasing the cost of imported raw materials.
Moreover, the inflationary pressures have pushed the headline rate past 30%, severely eroding the purchasing power of the average citizen. It is the regular Nigerians in their millions who bear the brunt with suffocating pressures.
Another point is that being an insensitive government, its policy of drastic increases in power tariffs for specific consumer bands added severe financial strain to households and MSMEs.
In addition, despite subsequent adjustments to the national minimum wage, continuous price increases have rapidly nullified any realistic increase in standard of living and eroded the minimum wage value.
One other area is the hostile macroeconomic climate, currency volatility, and supply chain bottlenecks have forced several major multinational companies to divest or exit the country in droves.
It is also noticeable that the “Japa” (brain drain) syndrome has reached a cataclysmic dimension. Rising unemployment and a collapsing local economy have accelerated the mass migration of skilled professionals out of Nigeria with the consequence of thousands of energetic young Nigerians perishing in the perilous trans-Saharan desert and Atlantic Ocean crossings in the desperate attempt to escape from Nigeria.
In the area of insecurity, the eighth point to note is that the persistent attacks by bandits and insurgent groups in major agricultural belts have prevented farmers from tilling their lands, critically shortening food supplies.
Furthermore on insecurity, a notable surge in high-profile abductions, including school children, continues to terrorize highways and local communities. This government lacks any iota of idea on how to deal decisively with the escalating currents of insecurity in the country. All they are doing is to concentrate on how to rig the 2027 general elections due to their failures and mass unpopularity.
Their tenth point of failure is acute food onsecurity. The combination of farming insecurity and skyrocketing transport costs has pushed essential food items out of reach, plunging millions more Nigeriand into poverty.
It is an open sore that government “palliatives” and cash transfer initiatives have been poorly distributed, opaque, highly insufficient to cushion the mass poverty and hunger crisis, and heavily tainted by corruption. The government claims that it has expended N750 billion on conditional cash transfers to 15 million vulnerable households, whereas you can’t find up to one hundred Nigerians in an over 200 million population who have benefited even one Naira from the so-called conditional transfers. We dare them to allow an independent forensic audit of that expenditure. It is all a scam.
Their twelfth failure point is that of hefty budget infractions. High-profile controversies have erupted over the insertion of unvetted, massive allocations into the federal budget, leading to intense public and legislative scrutiny. It is a dance of shame in the public space.
The unprecedented practice of running multiple years’ capital budgets simultaneously, creating severe room for duplication and lack of tracking is another failure chart.
Of significant observation is this government is notorious for extravagant non-essential government spending. Public outrage has consistently targeted large foreign trip entourages, multi-billion Naira renovations for official residences, and luxury vehicles during a massive economic crisis.
This government is also notorious for institutional nepotism. Key political, financial, and security appointments show a heavy bias toward political loyalists and individuals from specific regions.
Nigerians have also observed the penchant of this government for total lack of transparency in all matters of state. One example is that the presidency has faced intense criticism for refusing to provide clear, proactive medical updates regarding the exact nature of the president’s health conditions. They hide everything. Failure!
Also of note is that the country experiences several occasions of administrative pauses due to recurrent disappearances of the president on trips to European political hubs. The prolonged, multi-week stays abroad are frequently labeled by the administration as “working vacations,” a term which masks an inability to govern seamlessly on the ground. Prolonged absences without a formal, transparent temporary transfer of power to the Vice President violate the spirit of constitutional accountability.
Nigeria is currently witnessing crackdowns on peaceful dissent under a supposedly democratic government. The state deployment of teargas, arbitrary arrests of protesters, and the direct criminalization of individuals simply wearing “Tinubu Must Go” T-shirts are direct attacks on our constitutional democracy.
The weaponization of the Cybercrimes Act is oppressive and tyrannical. The state’s aggressive prosecution of journalists, critics, and opposition leaders under amended cyber-laws is a proof of democratic regression.
The Tinubu administration is a total failure in international diplomacy which has allowed other serious countries in Africa to become global players where Nigeria used to be the big boy. This government can’t even successfully post ambassadors to many countries. Most of its ambassador designates have remained so about a year after their appointment. The last UNGA gave Nigeria a huge international embarrassment. After the presidency had made it known publicly that President Tinubu would attend the session, suddenly the vice president had to be delegated at the last minute to represent him with the implication that both the President and his Vice were outside the country simultaneously.
Finally, the Tinubu administration has failed woefully in the area of infrastructure. There are many crucial road networks across the country crying for rehabilitation but the government chose to ignore those in favor of the so-called Lagos-Calabar coastal road which is a poorly disguised white elephant merely designed to siphon the country’s resources into private pockets. Whilst commuters on Asaba-Benin roads, Lagos-Ibadan expressway, and many other intra-state connecting roads of huge economic values are stranded for days, the Tinubu administration prioritizes wastage on a road with no immediate social or economic values to the people over critical road infrastructures.
That is why when some people say those who have never had experience in public office should not contest for elections in higher offices, we ask them what has the experience of Tinubu as a former Senator and Governor benefited Nigeria? He is even performing below the qualities expected of a Councillor.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Chief Michael Okpara of blessed memory and co did wonders in the First Republic and had no prior public service experiences.
Late Chief MKO Abiola who won the freest and fairest presidential election ever conducted in the history of democracy in Nigeria was not even a Councillor when he won the presidency in 1993 after a highly successful career as an international businessman.
“We therefore urge Nigerians to focus on our Blueprint of Farewell to Poverty and Insecurity to which the APC has no answer.
The blueprint shifts national discourse toward ideas-based, results-driven governance by placing the eradication of poverty and insecurity at the exact core of the state’s agenda. Rejecting the notion that Nigeria’s challenges stem from natural limitations, Adebayo attributes them entirely to past leadership failures. He pledges a legalistic, highly accountable administration where Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution – the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy – is transformed from symbolic language into a mandatory operating compass, guaranteeing that government performance is judged strictly by tangible improvements in human welfare.
To achieve this vision, the campaign presents a bold macroeconomic and structural master plan designed to deliver comprehensive results within a single four-year term. The strategy is anchored on the three pillars of security, productivity, and prosperity, relying on a social democracy model that balances aggressive state intervention with private enterprise dynamism to meet the basic needs of ordinary citizens.
On the industrial front, the roadmap sets ambitious targets, including generating 75,000 megawatts of electricity and establishing four public alongside 36 modular refineries to solve energy bottlenecks and stabilize the currency.
Mechanized agriculture and digital innovation are prioritized to stimulate full employment, safely returning farmers to their fields to feed both the local population and foreign markets.
Furthermore, the plan decentralizes power via cooperative federalism and subsidiarity, effectively transforming Nigeria’s local government areas into self-reliant engines of economic growth and national security.
This blueprint is the most practical panacea to Nigeria’s multi-sectoral challenges.
Comrade Mark Adebayo,
Head, Directorate of Media and Communications, Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign, FCT, Abuja.
(October 8th, 2026)
