Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, Adewole Adebayo, has hailed “tax collector”, president Bola Tinubu for stabilising Nigeria’s ailing economy.
Speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday, Adebayo highlighted that Tinubu deployed tax collection policies in Lagos State and he is replicating the same initiatives as president.
“Everybody knows that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a well-known tax collector,” Adebayo said.
“But that tax collection is an improvement over a disorganised system he met on ground. He did tax collection in Lagos and he came to do tax collection in Abuja.
“The problem with Hon. Dogara’s speech is that he is overstating it. This reform is not the best but it is far better than what we had.”
The opposition politician claimed that Tinubu has managed Nigeria’s economy better than his predecessor, late Muhammadu Buhari.
“It’s obvious that the economy that President Buhari left was a poorly managed economy, and was an emergency room patient,” he said.
“Like any emergency room patient, the road to recovery will be a good diagnosis by the doctor.
“So if the doctor is able to know what is the reason why you are ill, he will be able to put you on a solid path to recovery.
“What President Tinubu has done is to stabilise the patient, but I’m not sure that he has managed to know the ailment. So the patient is not going to die imminently, but he hasn’t found a cure.
“He hasn’t been able to identify the ailment that is disturbing the patient.
“As an emergency room doctor, he is taking some steps, some of it actually aggravated the case of the patient, but over time, he appears to have one or two wins in two sectors, which is why it appears that they might be deceived into thinking that the patient is on his road to recovery.”
