In an interview with the Sun on Monday, May 11, 2026, Prince Nixon Okwara, who is vying to represent the Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency II of Lagos State, came out strongly in defense of President Bola Tinubu, arguing that much of the opposition to his administration was being bankrolled and orchestrated by a powerful elite whose lucrative privileges the president had dared to dismantle.
Okwara opened with an unequivocal endorsement of the president’s leadership, pushing back against the narrative of failure that critics had sought to establish. “Tinubu saved Nigeria from calamity. He hasn’t disappointed me nor Nigerians,” he said firmly.
He quickly pivoted to what he described as the real force driving the hostility toward the administration — a entrenched political class unwilling to relinquish its grip on the country’s resources. “We have the political class, those who feel they’re the owners of Nigeria. They control everywhere,” he charged.
Okwara then pointed to the foreign exchange regime as a prime example of the kind of systematic exploitation that had enriched a select few at the expense of the broader population — and which Tinubu had moved decisively to end. “The dollar regime was a business of the few, it went for so long and it destroyed us, it didn’t start with this president, but when the man took that hard decision,” he said, before asking a question he felt answered itself. “Do you know the number of people who were beneficiaries of the dollar regime Tinubu has now put out of business?” he posed.
He argued that those displaced interests were now using their considerable financial muscle to fight back. “A lot of them are out and these people have billions, they are the ones controlling the financial sector including the banks,” he concluded, suggesting that the war against Tinubu’s reforms was in large part a war being waged by those who had profited most from the old order….See More
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