Thursday, October 23, 2025 - The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Adetokunbo Abiru, has commended President Bola Tinubu for steering Nigeria through a period of bold and far-reaching economic and institutional reforms, anchored on strong legislative backing.
Abiru, who chairs both the Southern Senators’ Forum and the
Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions,
described Tinubu’s leadership as “courageous, visionary, and transformative.”
According to a statement by his media aide, Enitan Olukotun,
the senator spoke on Tuesday at the Lagos State All Progressives Congress
Stakeholders’ Forum 2025, where he praised the President’s collaboration with
the National Assembly, noting that it had produced a series of landmark laws
underpinning the administration’s “Renewed Hope Agenda.”
“These legislative
interventions are the backbone of the President’s reforms, providing legal and
institutional stability,” Abiru said.
He listed the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act 2025,
Tax Reform Acts 2025, Student Loan Act, Electricity Act Amendment, Data
Protection Act, Police Reform Bill, Security Agencies Acts, Nigerian
Broadcasting Commission (Amendment) Bill, and the Startup Act Implementation
Framework among the key enactments.
Abiru added that the Revenue Administration Harmonisation
Bill was another strategic instrument that had consolidated fiscal reforms and
strengthened public revenue management.
“Two years ago, Nigerians entrusted him with the leadership
of our nation at one of the most difficult moments in our modern history. The
economy was distressed, public confidence shaken, and our national direction
uncertain. Yet, true to his courage and visionary spirit, President Tinubu
chose the harder but more honourable path — the path of reform, restructuring,
and renewal,” he said.
The lawmaker praised Tinubu’s “bold and decisive” economic
steps, including the removal of fuel subsidy, unification of the foreign
exchange market, and redirection of national resources to key sectors.
According to him, these actions have helped restore “economic stability and
fiscal discipline” to the country.
Highlighting policy milestones, Abiru pointed to the NELFUND
educational loans for over 510,000 students, CrediCorp loans of N30 billion to
150,000 Nigerians, the new N70,000 minimum wage, and Project Bridge, a
90,000-kilometre fibre-optic network aimed at boosting digital connectivity
nationwide.
“What we are witnessing today is the institutionalisation of
governance reforms through law — the kind of structural changes that ensure
sustainability beyond any administration,” he added.
Abiru also reflected on Lagos’ record of fiscal innovation
under Tinubu’s governorship, saying the state had become a model for financial
autonomy and progressive policy now being replicated nationally.
“What started in Lagos as a vision for subnational
resilience has become a template for national renewal. The principles of fiscal
innovation, governance reform, and inclusive growth are now the building blocks
of a new Nigeria,” he said.
Declaring his political stance ahead of the next general
elections, Abiru said:“On behalf of the good people of Lagos East Senatorial
District, and in concert with the collective will of our great party, I proudly
and unequivocally endorse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for re-election in 2027.”
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