The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D., GCON, has said history will be kind to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, especially for the courageous steps taken by his administration towards socio-economic reforms in Nigeria.

History will remember President Tinubu for his courage—Speaker Abbas

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D., GCON, has said history will be kind to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, especially for the courageous steps taken by his administration towards socio-economic reforms in Nigeria.

Speaker Abbas, in his goodwill message at the inauguration of the National Executives of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement in Abuja on Thursday, noted that the movement stands for the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu and the actualisation of his second term in office at the 2027 general elections.

The Speaker said, “Let me say it plainly, and without flattery: history will remember this President for his courage. He met a nation at a crossroads and chose the path of conviction over convenience. The fuel subsidy: removed. The exchange rate: unified. The tax system was rebuilt from the ground up through the reform Acts that took effect in January this year. These were not decisions taken for applause. They were decisions taken for posterity.

“Yes, the road has demanded sacrifice, and we do not take that sacrifice lightly. But the early dividends are visible: rising revenues, returning confidence, and a fiscal system that rewards production, not consumption. A nation that endures the discipline of reform earns the right to its rewards.”

Giving his testimony as Speaker of the 10th House, he stated that “none of these happened by executive fiat alone,” adding that “every major reform passed through the crucible of the People’s House.”

Speaker Abbas stressed, “We debated. We refined. We passed. The tax laws. The student loan scheme. The consumer credit framework. The new national minimum wage. Each one bears the imprint of your Parliament.

“So, what Nigerians are witnessing is not merely a reforming presidency. It is institutions working together, exactly as the Constitution intends. And herein lies the truth this Movement must carry to every doorstep: renewed hope is not the burden of one man, however gifted, however determined.

“It is a covenant of the whole society. A President who leads. A legislature that refines and oversees. Courts that uphold the law. States and Local Governments that deliver. A civil service that implements. A private sector that creates. And citizens who participate, who pay their taxes, who hold their leaders to account, and who keep faith with the Nigerian project. So when you knock on a door, you are not merely canvassing for a candidate. You are inviting a fellow citizen to share in the ownership of national renewal.”

The Speaker saluted the Founder and Grand Patron of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, High Chief Dr. Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo; National Coordinator, Sunday A. Asuku; Secretary General, Daniel Oluwatosin Dorcas; and the entire leadership.

“You have chosen to take politics back to where it belongs: to the doorstep of the Nigerian citizen. Door to door. Street to street. Ward to ward. In an age when engagement is too often reduced to slogans, you have chosen conversation over confrontation, and contact over commotion,” he said.

While noting that democracy is not an abstract concept, Speaker Abbas pointed out that “it lives in our compounds and our markets. It lives in our town halls and our places of worship. It lives in the daily conversations of ordinary Nigerians.”

The Speaker, however, told the movement that “mobilisation is a means, not an end,” noting that the test of a movement is not the size of its crowds but the substance of its conversations.

“So, make your engagement a two-way street. When you knock, do not only speak. Listen. And when you have listened, report back. What you gather on the doorstep is legislative gold. It tells us where policy touches the ground, and where it does not. By becoming a channel between citizen and state, this Movement will serve Nigeria far beyond any single election,” he said.

Speaker Abbas added that it is in that same spirit that the National Assembly hosts its annual Open Week from the 14th to the 16th of this month, barely a week from today. He said the doors of the People’s Parliament will be open to citizens, civil society, students, and the media.