“Our 2026 budget commits N5.41 trillion—our largest ever—to defence and security. Our administration is ever ready to do much more to secure our people,” Mr Tinubu stated.
In 2025; 32 years after, IBB publicly admitted that the late Mr Abiola won the June 12, 1993 presidential poll.
The president said the honours list would be released “in the coming days”.
‘Farewell to Poverty’ was MKO Abiola’s 1993 campaign slogan. Three decades later, 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor.
“Terror-related deaths are down by 81 per cent since 2015,” Mr Tinubu said. “Over 13,000 terrorists have been neutralised in the past year.”
“Electricity is a democratic dividend we owe every Nigerian. We intend to deliver it,” Mr Tinubu said.
The Nigeria Immigration Service recently disclosed that over 3.6 million Nigerians migrated to other countries within two years.
President Bola Tinubu urged Nigerians, including his critics, to remain confident in Nigeria’s success and future, even as they criticise his administration’s policies.
“The insecurity we are addressing is partly due to the collapse of grassroots governance,” said Mr Tinubu.
“I am speaking for the masses, our people who should see it as a significant date when democracy died,” Mr Olorunfemi noted.
