Despite assurances from top members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies are already bearing fruit, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, offered a sobering counterpoint, saying there is no clear timeline for when Nigerians will begin to feel the impact and warned that many may not live long enough to witness the results.
Morka made the remark while addressing journalists at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
This admission contrasts sharply with the optimistic tone set by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, House Speaker Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, APC National Chairman Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and Imo State Governor and Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Hope Uzodinma, who all claimed at a recent party summit that Tinubu’s policies are already delivering positive outcomes.
When asked when Nigerians could expect tangible benefits from the administration’s reforms, Morka offered a metaphor, likening the government’s progress to a crawling child. “The child is crawling. Now, I don’t know what age. I can’t say,” he replied. He added, “Children crawl before they walk. So if a child is crawling… you should encourage the child to crawl.”
On the contentious issue of fuel subsidy removal, Morka defended Tinubu’s decision as a necessary, if painful, step for the nation’s long-term welfare. “All the presidents who came before this one preferred to postpone the doomsday,” he said. “We didn’t just wake up in the last two years to realise that fuel subsidy was a destructive device in our country.”
He also pushed back against claims that the APC is prematurely campaigning for Tinubu’s re-election, saying public endorsements are not equivalent to campaign activity.
Addressing the issue of national security, Morka described insecurity as a “global phenomenon,” and noted that Nigeria has been grappling with it for the past two decades.
Meanwhile, millions of Nigerians continue to battle high unemployment, deepening poverty, hunger, skyrocketing living costs, and persistent insecurity with no clear sign of relief in sight.
