The City Boy Movement has set equipment in movement in the direction of actualising the final word purpose of getting President Bola Tinubu re-elected through the January, 2027 ballot.
Director-General of the City Boy Movement (CBM), Francis Shoga, has declared that no candidate is healthier positioned than President Bola Tinubu to advance Nigeria’s growth past 2027.
He cited far-reaching beneficial properties in infrastructure, agriculture, vitality and financial reforms for the reason that President assumed workplace on May 29, 2023
Shoga, who made this disclosure whereas talking with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, acknowledged that the size of initiatives and reforms undertaken by the Tinubu authorities confirmed that the President deserved the chance to consolidate them.
According to him, Nigerians ought to assess the administration on the idea of measurable interventions throughout crucial sectors quite than political rhetoric.
He particularly talked about the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the 1,068-kilometre Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway as proof of an unprecedented infrastructure push underneath the administration.
According to him, authorities is “building the two longest highways in our history,” alongside rehabilitation and building works on a number of federal roads throughout the nation.
Federal Ministry of Works mentioned the primary 30 kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was inaugurated by Tinubu on May 31, 2025, out of the 40.7-kilometre portion then being delivered underneath Phase One, Section One. The broader Section One hall was initially designed to cowl about 47.47 kilometres.
The ministry additionally described the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway as a 1,068-kilometre hall operating from Sokoto via Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo and Ogun states earlier than terminating in Lagos, with building continuing in sections.
On agriculture, Shoga mentioned the administration had launched into mechanisation on what he described as a historic scale, pointing to the deployment of two,000 tractors and different gear as properly as the $1.1 billion Green Imperative Programme being carried out with Brazil.
“We are mechanising agriculture at a historic scale,” he mentioned.
The President had formally launched 2,000 tractors underneath the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme in June 2025, whereas Nigeria and Brazil had earlier signed the business section of the $1.1 billion Green Imperative Project to supply equipment, technical help and repair centres geared toward elevating agricultural productiveness.
Shoga additionally cited as instance the creation of a standalone Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, enlargement of cultivated land for rice and wheat and elevated financing for agricultural manufacturing as proof that the federal government was making an attempt to sort out meals insecurity structurally quite than via momentary interventions.
The CBM DG whereas commenting on the petroleum trade, mentioned authorities had recorded enhancements in crude manufacturing and attracted contemporary investments into the upstream sector.
He recalled the graduation of economic operations by the Dangote Refinery as properly as the restart of operations on the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries in late 2024.
Official Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission information confirmed that crude manufacturing reached 1.56 million barrels per day in June 2026, earlier than settling at about 1.50 million barrels per day in August, when Nigeria met its OPEC quota for the fourth consecutive month.
Shoga additional defended the administration’s response to the hardship arising from the elimination of petrol subsidy, pointing to the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative as one of many measures designed to supply cheaper options for transportation.
He mentioned the programme had inspired the institution of auto conversion centres and attracted substantial private-sector funding into CNG infrastructure.
The Federal Government has continued to increase the CNG programme, together with the commissioning in May 2026 of 4 main CNG infrastructure initiatives in Lagos, Abuja and Owerri as a part of measures to scale back transport prices following the subsidy reform.
Shoga additionally pointed to the development in Nigeria’s exterior reserves, moderation in inflation and discount within the debt-service-to-revenue burden as indicators that the administration’s financial reforms had been starting to provide outcomes.
Latest Federal Ministry of Finance figures put Nigeria’s exterior reserves at $54.7 billion as of September 18, 2026, whereas headline inflation stood at 15.39 per cent in August. The ministry additionally put the debt-to-revenue ratio at about 65 per cent within the first half of 2026.
He argued that the figures strengthened the case for permitting the administration to deepen the reforms and translate enhancing macroeconomic indicators into broader beneficial properties for Nigerians.
At its nationwide retreat in Abuja in July, Shoga mentioned the organisation was focusing on 10 million youth votes for the President via grassroots mobilisation throughout wards, native governments and communities.
Shoga was particular that the infrastructure, agricultural, vitality and monetary interventions already underway constituted the idea of the motion’s help for Tinubu, insisting that the President remained its option to proceed driving the nation’s growth agenda.
