{"id":65547,"date":"2025-05-10T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65547"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:36:41","slug":"tinubu-breathing-life-into-collapsed-nigerian-economy-onanuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/10\/tinubu-breathing-life-into-collapsed-nigerian-economy-onanuga\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Breathing Life into Collapsed Nigerian Economy \u2014Onanuga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Samson Adeyanju<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga, says President Bola Tinubu is reviving what he described as a dead economy inherited from the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>Backing his claim with remarks made by Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, Onanuga said the current government met a lifeless economic structure masked in motion, which Tinubu is now reengineering for growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn macroeconomic terms, this government inherited a dead economy \u2014 a dead horse that was still standing, but people didn\u2019t know it,\u201d Soludo stated during an interview on Channels Television, a clip of which Onanuga shared on X.<\/p>\n<p>According to Onanuga, the Tinubu-led administration has taken bold steps to reset the economy. \u201cTo all those attacking President Tinubu, please listen to Governor Soludo\u2019s insight.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Tinubu has been resuscitating the dead economy and placing it on the path of sustainable growth,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He listed achievements including debt reduction, clearance of IMF loans, sharp rise in internally generated revenue, improved investor confidence, a trade surplus, boosted foreign reserves, and strengthened state capacity for capital projects and salary payments.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga\u2019s defense of Tinubu comes amid mounting public scrutiny and hardship triggered by ongoing economic reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju Presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga, says President Bola Tinubu is reviving what he described as a dead economy inherited from the previous administration. Backing his claim with remarks made by Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, Onanuga said the current government met a lifeless economic structure masked in motion, which Tinubu is now reengineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65549,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions\/65549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}