A popular Nigerian financial analyst and Chief Economist at SPM, Paul Alaje, has said if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu can tame inflation completely and fix electricity in the next two years, he would be the greatest Nigerian president.
Alaje made this known on Monday during an interview with Channels Television’s morning show monitored by DAILY POST.
Analyzing Tinubu’s administration in the last two years, he said the government had rolled out a few policies that have worked and others that didn’t.
According to him, the Tinubu government must completely tame inflation, which stood at 23.7 percent as of April 2025, as a major panacea to tackling the country’s economic hardship.
Similarly, he stressed that the government in the next two years should work to fix electricity, especially for manufacturers.
“After these two years, a few things have worked and another few have not worked.
“In the next two years, we should look out for how inflation can be tamed completely. That is the ultimate for the people. If the inflation is not tamed, no matter what is done, people will not feel the impact.
“Secondly, President Tinubu should start laying the foundation for electricity. When he became the president, I told him.
“When former President Muhammadu Buhari was in office for eight years, I told one of his former colleagues that the president can only be successful if he has a one-point agenda: fix electricity and link it to manufacturers. I am telling President Bola Tinubu the same thing.
“If you want your name to be in the sound of time, fix power and electricity. We will continue to remember him as one of the greatest presidents ever. Let power be available, especially for manufacturers,” he stated.
DAILY POST reports that in April, Nigeria’s inflation cooled off on a month-on-month basis despite skyrocketing market prices of goods and services.
Meanwhile, Nigeria is among the countries with the largest electricity access deficit, with around 13.2 million customers in a population of over 200 million grappling with about 5,000 megawatts of electricity supply nationwide.
Fix Inflation, electricity: Things Tinubu must do to be greatest Nigerian President – Alaje
