Lagos senator hails Tinubu’s legislation-driven reforms

The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Adetokunbo Abiru, has commended President Bola Tinubu for steering Nigeria through a period of bold and far-reaching economic and institutional reforms, anchored on strong legislative backing.

Abiru, who chairs both the Southern Senators’ Forum and the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, described Tinubu’s leadership as “courageous, visionary, and transformative.”

According to a statement by his media aide, Enitan Olukotun, the senator spoke on Tuesday at the Lagos State All Progressives Congress Stakeholders’ Forum 2025, where he praised the President’s collaboration with the National Assembly, noting that it had produced a series of landmark laws underpinning the administration’s “Renewed Hope Agenda.”

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“These legislative interventions are the backbone of the President’s reforms, providing legal and institutional stability,” Abiru said.

He listed the Nigerian Insurance Industry Reform Act 2025, Tax Reform Acts 2025, Student Loan Act, Electricity Act Amendment, Data Protection Act, Police Reform Bill, Security Agencies Acts, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (Amendment) Bill, and the Startup Act Implementation Framework among the key enactments.

Abiru added that the Revenue Administration Harmonisation Bill was another strategic instrument that had consolidated fiscal reforms and strengthened public revenue management.

“Two years ago, Nigerians entrusted him with the leadership of our nation at one of the most difficult moments in our modern history. The economy was distressed, public confidence shaken, and our national direction uncertain. Yet, true to his courage and visionary spirit, President Tinubu chose the harder but more honourable path — the path of reform, restructuring, and renewal,” he said.

The lawmaker praised Tinubu’s “bold and decisive” economic steps, including the removal of fuel subsidy, unification of the foreign exchange market, and redirection of national resources to key sectors. According to him, these actions have helped restore “economic stability and fiscal discipline” to the country.

Highlighting policy milestones, Abiru pointed to the NELFUND educational loans for over 510,000 students, CrediCorp loans of N30 billion to 150,000 Nigerians, the new N70,000 minimum wage, and Project Bridge, a 90,000-kilometre fibre-optic network aimed at boosting digital connectivity nationwide.

“What we are witnessing today is the institutionalisation of governance reforms through law — the kind of structural changes that ensure sustainability beyond any administration,” he added.

Abiru also reflected on Lagos’ record of fiscal innovation under Tinubu’s governorship, saying the state had become a model for financial autonomy and progressive policy now being replicated nationally.

“What started in Lagos as a vision for subnational resilience has become a template for national renewal. The principles of fiscal innovation, governance reform, and inclusive growth are now the building blocks of a new Nigeria,” he said.

Declaring his political stance ahead of the next general elections, Abiru said:“On behalf of the good people of Lagos East Senatorial District, and in concert with the collective will of our great party, I proudly and unequivocally endorse President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for re-election in 2027.”