Former Abia State governor and Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has declared that President Bola Tinubu has turned Nigeria’s economy around despite the hardship occasioned by his administration’s reforms, insisting that the next major challenge before the President is to tackle insecurity across the country.

Kalu, who also dismissed suggestions that the National Assembly was a rubber stamp of the executive, said he would continue to support Tinubu’s re-election in 2027, while maintaining that his immediate political ambition was to return to the Senate, although he would not reject the position of Senate President if offered.

Speaking on ARISE Television’s ‘Prime Time’ programme last night, the former governor defended the administration’s economic policies, arguing that the reforms, though painful, had begun to yield results, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

Kalu maintained that Tinubu had stabilised the economy at the micro level, insisting that the temporary difficulties associated with economic reforms should not obscure what he described as improvements already being recorded.

The senator, however, acknowledged that insecurity remained a major challenge requiring urgent presidential attention, saying the government must now concentrate on addressing threats to lives and property.

Kalu, a prominent supporter of Tinubu’s second-term ambition, reiterated his conviction that the President remained the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2027 presidential election, while dismissing the opposition as too fragmented to pose a serious challenge.

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