Presidency faults Economist report on Tinubu's popularity

The Presidency on Tuesday rejected claims by The Economist that Nigerians dislike President Bola Tinubu, describing the assertion as “intellectual fraud” and insisting that the President’s economic overhaul is unstoppable. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, the Presidency said the foreign publication’s position “smells of opposition and is riddled with inconsistencies.” The statement is titled ‘Beyond the Economist Condescension: Nigeria’s Re-engineering Under Tinubu is Unstoppable.’ The Presidency argued that it had become a tired, predictable ritual for foreign publications, which it described as operating from “comfortable, insulated drawing rooms,” to view Nigeria through “a cracked, distorted lens.” According to Dare, such observers, in their “rush to paint a picture of impending doom, structural paralysis, and widespread citizen despair,” routinely “traffic in sensationalist half-truths.” The Presidency accused the publication of pushing a false narrative about the President’s standing with…