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How President Tinubu Made Nigeria a Bastion of Political and Economic Stability
In terms of stability, few countries on Earth can match the political and economic stability that Nigeria enjoys. Nigeria is the only country in Africa, and one of fewer than 20 worldwide, where you have five former Presidents or Heads of State alive and thriving, living in the country without animosity toward or from the incumbent President.
No other country in Africa has that level of political harmony between that quantum of former Heads of Government and the present government.
This has only been possible because, unlike on a few occasions in our history, President Bola Tinubu has engendered, through deliberate policy, mutual respect between himself and past leaders. Under President Tinubu, no ex-leader has faced witch hunts or political persecution for their past actions. Though it is within his powers, it has been the President's priority to stabilise the polity rather than heat it.
The President has fought corruption without turning it into a fight against the opposition.
And in terms of economic stability, Nigeria has enjoyed thirteen uninterrupted cycles of quarterly GDP growth and trade surpluses.
And that economic stability is why Nigeria has the top stock market of any country on Earth, bar none. The Nigerian Stock Exchange is more profitable than even the New York Stock Exchange.
The total market capitalisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange stood at ₦27.915 trillion on December 30, 2022. Today, it is ₦156.45 trillion. That is six times what it was before President Tinubu was elected.
And according to Bloomberg, the phenomenal explosion in value on the NGX is due to the policies of His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Those policies are why Nigeria was not just the sixth-largest contributor to global GDP growth in 2025 but also had one of the highest waves of FDI in Africa. Foreign Direct Investment inflow into Nigeria hit an 11-Year High in 2025, according to the World Investment Report 2026 released on Tuesday, July 2, 2026, by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Per UNCTAD, FDI into Nigeria increased by 148.4% to $4 billion in 2025, from $1.61 billion in 2024.
And to recognise Nigeria as a global bastion of stability, King Charles III invited Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu to a State Visit to the United Kingdom between March 18 and 19, 2026.
This was Nigeria's highest-ever diplomatic event in 37 years.
For the avoidance of doubt, a State Visit, where a Head of State of a host nation invites his counterpart in another nation for a ceremonial visit, and officially heads the hosting party, is the highest diplomatic honour that any country can bestow on the President or Head of State of another nation.
For those who may be unaware, a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is not a State Visit. In diplomatic parlance, CHOGMs are classified as 'Official Visits' and rank below State Visits.
So, when anyone tries to de-market Nigeria's economy or polity for their own ambitions, please confront them with these facts: you and I benefit from a politically and economically stable Nigeria. We thus should not allow anyone to misrepresent the truth about Nigeria to the outside world.
Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate to Mexico. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years.
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