Tinubu inherited Nigeria on brink of collapse – Mutfwang

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherited an economy “tottering on the brink of collapse”.

Mutfwang, who stated this on Monday during the formal inauguration of the APC campaign council in Jos, said the Tinubu administration inherited a country that could no longer service its external debts, while the Federal Government had resorted to printing money to manage the economy.

“Where did President Tinubu meet Nigeria in 2023? He met Nigeria tottering on the brink of collapse; Nigeria that could not service its external debts; Nigeria that would not even allow businesses outside the country to take their proceeds back home.”

“And that is why some international airlines stopped flying to Nigeria, because they could not get the dollars to take back their money. Our external reserve was down to just a little over $3 billion, from the over $40 billion it had accumulated for decades. Today, by the grace of God, we have a healthy external reserve of over $50 billion,” the governor said.

Mutfwang said Nigerians had to spend days on the queue to get petrol, saying that at a point the administration of late President Muhammadu Buhari was clueless.

He added, “Today, by the grace of God, we have solved one side of the equation. Today fuel is available. It may not be cheap but it is available.

“Those of us who are of my age bracket or little below will remember the times when we spent days in petrol stations queuing for fuel that we could hardly get. Part of the problem of the Buhari regime is that they got to a point that they didn’t know what to do, so they sold our future crude. And today we are paying that debt. And so we cannot expect things to simply change overnight.

“I am confident that come January 16, 2027, by the grace of God, Plateau State will return President Bola Ahmed Tinubu with a resounding victory. And that two weeks later, the people of Plateau will renew their mandate for us to continue on the good journey we have started.

“I want to urge you to go back home. It is time to go back home. Mobilise your own community. Mobilise your ward. Mobilise your local government. Mobilise your constituency.”