Nigeria, Oct. 8 -- Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has admitted that the administration's economic reforms pushed more Nigerians into poverty.

Bwala, however, said the government had made significant progress since the reforms were introduced.

He spoke on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television's Politics Today.

"Please let it be clear even to the opposition, the reason why you have this number of poor people and some of these doomsday analytics that people are giving is because we undertook a reform," he said.

"There is no part of the world where you start a reform like that there will not be discomfort.

"More people went down to poverty, acknowledged, but since when the ...