The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter
Obi, says the attitude of President Bola Tinubu’s administration does not
indicate that it is aware that the country is in a huge crisis.
Obi also accused the government of leaving out the most
pressing national needs and emergencies in the Supplementary Budget it recently
signed.
He lamented that instead, the government included “a
mysterious Presidential Yacht, Presidential Jets, the furnishing of already
lavishly furnished presidential quarters and offices, fleets of luxury SUVs” in
the budget.
The former Anambra State governor disclosed this in a
statement posted on X on Wednesday.
The statement, titled, ‘Observations on the Supplementary
Budget’, read, “A supplementary budget is a budget made for very important
national welfare needs of the people which were not captured originally in the
main budget, or do not have adequate funding.
“Admittedly, some items in the current budget may not have
taken into consideration the needs of a new administration, but it is expected
that a supplementary budget this late in the financial year should reflect
mostly urgent items of national welfare.
“Sadly, the most pressing national needs and emergencies
have not featured in the supplementary budget that was just announced by the
government. For example, the United Nations and World Food Programme have
recently alerted that up to 6.5 million Nigerians will go hungry next year.
This number is largely from among citizens in Sokoto, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, and
Zamfara States. A caring Government in order to plan for the mitigation of such
pending catastrophe can request for supplementary budget provisions to cushion
those under threat.
“No item of urgent social welfare has yet featured in the
supplementary budget being orchestrated by this government. Instead, the items
being made to dominate public discourse on the budget include a mysterious
Presidential Yacht, Presidential Jets, the furnishing of already lavishly
furnished presidential quarters and offices, fleets of luxury SUVs etc. This
portrays a Government that is totally uncaring and insensitive to the suffering
of the majority, and indifferent to the mood of the nation.
“The government’s overall attitude does not indicate that it
is aware that the country is in a huge crisis, nor is the government in tune
with the plight of the generality of our people. Even worse is the fact that
most of the funding for these profligate expenditures will be largely borrowed.
The least that Nigerians expect from the government at this difficult moment is
empathy and realism, not lavish indulgence.”
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