National Co-ordinator of the leading pro-Tinubu Group,Nationwide Tinubu Connect Associates (NTCA- aka No Vacancy in Aso Rock 2027),Hon. Uche Nwabueze has called on Nigerians to continue to offer support to the Tinubu Administration,adding that the year 2025 will surely be a year to celebrate the magic wand of Mr. President and his very resourceful team.

Hon.Nwabueze,who stated the above when he addressed journalists today in Lagos after joining other Christian faithful for a service to mark the New Year in the Ikeja area of Lagos,expressed optimism that,given what is already being seen in the prices of fuel and other essential commodities across the country,there was strong need to extend a hand of fellowship to the drivers of the sundry reforms of Mr.President in the diverse sectors of our national life.

Hon.Nwabueze pointed out that many Nigerians,who had hitherto doubted the expected outcomes of some of the policies and reforms of the Tinubu Administration,were beginning to understand that everything President Tinubu as the nation’s leader does is aimed at putting the country on the right pedestal to take its deserved place within the comity of other nations of the globe.

The former President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria and Founder of the former Youth Democratic Party (YDP),who was also a distinguished member of the 2014 President Jonathan’s National Constitution Reform Conference, used the occasion to highlight some of the areas of the Nigerian economy that had been allowed to drift for so long and reassured the citizenry that the Tax Reform Bill of Mr.President pending before the National Assembly has been packaged to address the economic loopholes overlooked by previous Administrations in Nigeria .

“You see,we need to do the right things to get the right results. A cliche’ tells us that it is only a mad man who does the same things the same way all the time while expecting different results at all times.Our nation is ripe for various forms of reforms so that we ourselves do not sink Nigeria into where we may not be able to rise again as a nation.Do you know that most Nigerians do not pay what we call income tax, yet they expect government to do everything for them!

“Look at the energy sector.Most of us travel round the world daily.In Rwanda,in Kenya,in Tanzania,how much is a liter of patrol, for instance? Go everywhere across the world Nigeria has one of the least prices for petrol.Or are you not surprised how much support Mr.President’s policies continue to receive from other leaders, especially our Governors, across Party lines? Forget someone like Governor Bala of Bauchi State,I know him very well and also know what he seeks to achieve with his recent public statements against the well-intentioned Tax Reform Bill.He has always wanted his Party and the North to see him as the leader he is not.

“Ok. Just from the removal of subsidy on petroleum products alone,even Governor Bala knows how much increase that has happened to the revenue he receives monthly from Abuja.Our States and other sub-national governments have become the better for these policies since the coming of Mr.President!What about the cabals feeding fat on the national till in that energy sector and so many other undeserving benefits to the rich that most Nigerians are unaware of…just like they were doing using the exchange rate of the Naira against other foreign currencies.

“Whether one likes or not,some of the policies and reforms that President Tinubu has embarked upon since he took over the reins of governance in 2023 should have happened a long time ago in any country that is serious to address poverty and social inequities in the long run.I would say it’s unfortunate Nigeria had to wait all this time for a President Tinubu to assume the Presidency and do what he is currently doing.

“This is why some Nigerians are wondering why Mr.President is receiving such global support and accolades on his governance initiatives. Those countries and institutions know that Nigerians cannot continue to revel in a fool’s paradise.At the rate the country was going, Zimbabwe’s former economy would have been a child’s play if the pitiable drift had continued under President Tinubu. Yet,I find some naysayers daily alleging that it’s all conspiracy theory; that the Bretton Wood institutions do not want Nigeria to rise past their preferred nations! Which Nigeria? It is always laughable that we mistakenly compare our potential for greatness with the reality on ground.”

Hon. Nwabueze,who equally told journalists to be alive to their role of educating society without bias at all times, described President Tinubu’s assumption of power as a saving grace for a country that had for so long been in the throes of economic, security and social implosion.He wondered why the issue of electricity has continued to be a subject of mismanagement from one Administration to another and expressed optimism that the constant collapse of the national grid currently being witnessed across the nation and all the issues of corruption that have continued to bedevil and sabotage efforts injected into making things work in the sector would,like the steel sector, receive President Tinubu’s Midas touch and become a thing of the past.

Again,hear him:
“This is why we at the Nationwide Tinubu Connect Associates ( No Vacancy in Aso Rock 2027) have on our decided to join those who are telling the world the beautiful things the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is engendering in our country.And we are calling on everyone who can see the differences being delivered on the turf of our nation to join our advocacy in support of Mr. President’s Agenda for Nigeria. It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to,what matters is the change the Renewed Hope Agenda is delivering to our homes everywhere across the country.

“Our organisation has identified like-minded individuals and groups and we all had a gentleman’s agreement to collapse those groups into the Nationwide Tinubu Connect Associates.Today,the result is that our structure is everywhere across the country,from the national level to the whole 774 Local Government Areas and we still have the intention to drive the structure down to the Political Wards! We intend to keep Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora abreast with all that the Tinubu Administration is doing, knowing that most of it goes unreported.We have decided that, with our upcoming inauguration,we will no longer keep quiet on the progress being made by this Administration “,the National Co-ordinator,Hon. Nwabueze revealed.

Established late last by a spectrum of political and pressure groups across the country,the Nationwide Tinubu Connect Associates (NTCA) is today a leading pro-Tinubu Group with branches within and outside Nigeria.The Group,which is led by various experienced political actors,most of whom are still in various places of leadership in both the public and private sectors,is funded through personal donations of members and admirers.

*Nkem Anyata-Lafia*
National Publicity Secretary
*January 12,2025*