Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has strongly defended President Bola Tinubu’s approach to governance, emphasising that his administration is tackling Nigeria’s toughest challenges with bold and necessary reforms.

Morka in an interview with ARISE News on Wednesday, praised Tinubu’s resolve to implement difficult but essential economic policies, noting that the president is not seeking “cheap popularity” but is focused on long-term economic recovery and national stability. “In just one year, President Tinubu has done more to prioritise Nigeria’s economic direction than all of his predecessors,” Morka said.

Responding to criticism from opposition figures such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, and Rotimi Amaechi, Morka dismissed their statements as unconstructive. “The president is focused on dealing with matters that guarantee the long term health of our country. “Now what is funny is that all of these voices put together don’t even begin to speak to what they think this president should be doing different from what he’s doing.

“Not one of them has come forward with any kind of informed prescription of what the president should be doing because they know in their hearts outside of just politicking that the president is doing exactly what any right thinking president would do.”

Morka called on Nigerians to look beyond partisan attacks and recognise the administration’s progress, pointing to projects like the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as evidence of the president’s ambitious infrastructure agenda. “As far as we are concerned whether it is the 30km launch that you referenced why not, when have we ever as a country embarked on a project that critical and that ambitious to build a costal high way round through from Lagos all the way to calaber? we haven’t had that,he urged.

He also urged Nigerians to be optimistic and patriotic. “We must wish our country well and be optimistic beyound politics and beyound this whole this drama of the opposition we must again celebrate this milestone that this president has enacted.”

Addressing recent debates around political party registration, Morka reaffirmed the independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC. He explained that INEC is a statutory body empowered by law to regulate the electoral process and assess applications based on legal criteria, not political influence.

“INEC is a statutory institution created by law handed a clear mandate to regulate wheather political parties or to manage electo-process we cannot second guess that. INEC will deal with applications of political parties based on legal criteria it’s not a political process and INEC is statutory authority meaning that INEC is a compelleble agency.

“If there is anyone that has attempted to register political party who has been unfairly denied that facility to register and they believe that INEC has ignored,cleared legal standard which they have met by to register that party,” he concluded.

Erizia Rubyjeana

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