A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has rejected what he described as the excuses and blame game dished out by the presidency as the cause of the deepening economic woes.
Eze says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his team seem
entrapped in a quagmire as hope is nowhere in sight to get the country out of
the pickle.
The APC chieftain claims that the Nigerian economy has
progressively continued in a free fall while the value of the Naira to other
convertible currencies is steadily on a downward trend and is nearing a state
of worthlessness in the international money market.
He noted that the effect of the uninterrupted journey of the
Naira to its place of final rest is the hike in the price of food and other
basic commodities.
Eze noted that the attendant reality is the hunger and
starvation that is feasible on the faces of angry Nigerians, who, according to
him, are unsure of a square meal for each passing day and most of whom go to
bed each night hungry.
Despite the overwhelming challenges of the time which has
sealed Nigeria’s place as the poverty capital of the world, Eze wondered why
some analysts still hold the view that Tinubu is right in his policies.
Countering the assertions of pro-Tinubu commentators, Chief
Eze said: “Assuming the policies were good, with very little or no thought
towards the complex chains of reciprocal interactions and variables required in
the translation of policies into actions, there is bound to be a widening gap
between intentions and results as is the case in the present.”
In a statement made available to the media, the politician
expressed shock over a recent comment credited to Vice President Kashim
Shittima, who had inferred that politicians who lost in the 2023 general
election were orchestrating a plot to destabilize Nigeria.
Describing Shetima’s claims as inconsequential, Eze said
Tinubu was never prepared to make any meaningful impact in Nigeria, adding that
his only concern was to be President and nothing more.
“The pernicious effects of perpetual poverty have become
real under his administration and these are his chief legacies,” he said
“There seems to be no efforts by the present administration
in tackling the economic concerns of the country and if there are, he said, it
means such efforts are not good enough and shifting blame to patriots who are
in their private capacities thinking out ways to help the country is to say the
least myopic.
“I laugh at the reasons expounded by some of our leaders and
Scholars as the factors behind our present food Crisis. They failed to
highlight insecurity as the main bane of the present economic woes facing
Nigeria.
“Where do we get the food to eat when most of the farmers
both in the North and Southern sections of this country particularly those in
the North Central are now in the IDP Camps leaving their farms in the hands of
herders?
“And we are busy fooling ourselves that we don’t have enough
food to feed the populace. What part of Nigeria is safe or secure for normal
farming activities to take place?
“This is the reality. Our problem is human-induced yet we
are expecting God to send us manna from Heaven as he did to the people of
Israel who had no means of farming at the period God sent manna to them.
Eze highlighted that apart from insecurity another major
cause of Nigeria’s present woes was the inability of the President who in 2012
highlighted the consequences of the removal of subsidy but was carried away by
his election victory and announced without a proper study and provision to
ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians, the removal of oil subsidy.
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