SWAGA denies calling for Finance Minister’s resignation, backs Tinubu’s fiscal reforms

The foremost support group for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, South West Agenda for Asiwaju-SWAGA has denied making any call for resignation of the Minister of Finance and the coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. In a statement by its National Secretary, Rep. Bosun Oladele, the group noted that the statement calling for resignation of […]

The foremost support group for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, South West Agenda for Asiwaju-SWAGA has denied making any call for resignation of the Minister of Finance and the coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun.

In a statement by its National Secretary, Rep. Bosun Oladele, the group noted that the statement calling for resignation of the Minister was not only mischievous and devilish but also clearly the handiwork of opposition elements shopping for credible platform to use in attacking Edun and by extension President Bola Tinubu.

According to the statement, the play is an attempt to rubbish all the giant strides of the President and his economic and finance team towards ensuring recovery of Nigeria having stabilized its economy in record time despite odious challenges we have faced and are still facing as a nation.

“The Statement by an unknown and faceless Otunba Adedayo Adewole who claimed to be President of SWAGA circulating on social media is a poorly executed attempt to paint SWAGA black and portray the group as engaging in destructive criticism of a government which SWAGA helped to install since 2020 while naysayers were clueless and busy sleeping. Let is be on record that SWAGA has no president in its organization’s structure and we are not ready to start appointing a “president” to lead our group.

“There is only one SWAGA and it is headed by Sen. Dayo Adeyeye, the current Chairman of Governing Board of Nigerian Ports Authority. We challenge the Otunba Adewole and his own group to be bold enough to identify themselves and come out in public if they belong to SWAGA at all,” Oladele said in the statement.

The group expressed its full support of the reforms that President Tinubu has introduced in the taxation, economy, finance and fiscal policies.

“We stand proud to say that these were the qualities we identified in his leadership and started preaching to Nigerians and we remain proud that we were right,” the group said.

It added that “It is only a fool that will not recognize that our Naira is now stable, the percentage of revenue in debt servicing has reduced to 50% from 90%, foreign reserve has climbed up to $41 Billion, the revenue target in 2025 budget has been met in August, diplomacy and foreign relations policy of Nigeria is redirected already and yielding investment inflows. We, in SWAGA are convinced that Nigeria, its finances and economy are in safe hands and we have been emboldened to start the Second round of our mobilization for Mr. President in SWAGA 2.0.”