No one seems more assured of President Bola Tinubu’s ability to turn the economy into a thriving one than Senator Adedayo Adeyeye. Listen to him for a few minutes and you begin to understand why he believes the president is the right man to steer the country toward the future Nigerians deserve.
That conviction was demonstrated recently at a press briefing in Lagos, where Adeyeye, a former senator and current NPA chairman, unveiled the next agenda for the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA) — the political movement he founded in 2020. In measured but emphatic tones, he reeled off what he sees as the president’s achievements over two years, from infrastructure development to investment in education, before declaring that Tinubu would win a landslide in 2027, no matter what his critics say.
The next time we met Adeyeye, he was seated on a sofa in his hotel suite, leaning back with ease. His assistants lingered, listening closely; now and then he turned to them to confirm a detail or memory. When he wanted to drive home a point, Adeyeye leaned forward, hands in motion as his voice cadence gained momentum. Once the point was made, he settled back again, palms resting lightly and reassuringly on the sofa, his gaze steady, as if inviting the next question. Throughout our conversation, the politician never once lost the thread of his arguments. Even when he digressed into other matters, his thoughts would find their way back, unerringly, to where they began.