The jury is still divided on where the Nigerian economy is headed under President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress APC party. For the government and its supporters, the bitter medicine of the past two years has worked its magic. The patient, once taken for dead, is now rousing, they insist.
"I'm glad to tell you today that the economy is stabilised," Tinubu said while giving his personal verdict at the presidency in Abuja on September 3. "The bleeding has stopped, haemorrhage is gone the patient is alive."
For his opponents meanwhile, the patient is on life support, lying prostrate and near-death. Tinubu is accused of making worse what was already a bad situation under his predecessor, the late Muhammadu Buhari.