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Cites infrastructure, agric mechanisation, oil output, reserves
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The Director-General of the City Boy Movement (CBM), Francis Shoga, has said President Bola Tinubu is best positioned to lead Nigeria beyond 2027, citing ongoing infrastructure projects, agricultural mechanisation, increased oil production and improved external reserves.
Shoga spoke on Thursday in Abuja at an interactive session with journalists at the movement’s headquarters.
He said the projects and reforms of the administration required continuity to deliver their full impact, citing the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the 1,068-kilometre Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway as examples of its infrastructure drive.
According to him, the government is “building the two longest highways in our history,” alongside the rehabilitation and construction of federal roads nationwide.
The Federal Ministry of Works said Tinubu commissioned the first 30 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway on May 31, 2025. It describes the Sokoto-Badagry route as a 1,068-kilometre corridor linking Sokoto with Lagos through Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo and Ogun states.
On agriculture, Shoga cited the deployment of 2,000 tractors and the $1.1 billion Green Imperative Programme being implemented with Brazil.
“We are mechanising agriculture at a historic scale,” he said.
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He also cited the establishment of the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, expansion of rice and wheat cultivation and increased agricultural financing as measures to boost food production.
On the petroleum sector, Shoga pointed to increased crude production, new upstream investments and the commencement of commercial operations at the Dangote Refinery, as well as the restart of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries.
Data from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission showed crude production at 1.56 million barrels per day in June 2026 and about 1.50 million barrels per day in August.
Shoga also cited the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative as part of the government’s response to the impact of petrol subsidy removal, saying the programme had stimulated investment in vehicle conversion centres and CNG infrastructure.
He further pointed to external reserves, inflation and the debt-service burden as indicators of progress under the administration’s economic reforms.
Shoga said the figures justified allowing the government to consolidate its reforms.
The CBM is mobilising support for Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election. At its national retreat in Abuja in July, Shoga said the group was targeting 10 million youth votes for the President through grassroots mobilisation.
He said the movement’s support for Tinubu was based on the administration’s infrastructure, agricultural, energy and economic interventions, insisting that “no candidate” was better positioned to advance Nigeria’s development agenda beyond 2027.
