The Labour Party, LP, has urged President Bola Tinubu to seek help over the increasing cost of living and hardships in the country before they become unmanageable.
The party said it is deeply concerned about how millions of Nigerians are battling with the crisis of food shortages since the turn of the year.
This is even as the party said it is calling on Tinubu to prevail on some of his aides from making inflammatory, incendiary, careless, and unreasonable comments, which are capable of offending the sensibility of average Nigerians.
This was made known in a statement issued on Monday by Obiora Ifoh, LP’s National Publicity Secretary.
The opposition party said Tinubu and his team should admit they’ve run out of ideas and ask for help, as no amount of propaganda could change the fact that more Nigerians are falling below the poverty line.
The party lamented that essential commodities such as rice, garri, flour, garri, and protein have witnessed exponential increases in prices since January.
According to the LP, there is an air of despondency across the nation, saying that the immediate fallout of the situation is increasing crime, particularly among the youths, and incidences of suicide are on the upswing.
Ifoh said that “it is either that the government is bereft of ideas on how to check this unfolding catastrophe or that it chose to continue to act as if it is still campaigning for office,” insisting it is no time for politics.
“You can’t run a governance based on a whim. The economic turmoil we are suffering today is a result of this poor sense of judgement. Sadly, amidst all of these, the All Progressives Congress administration has increased its spending on the lavish lifestyles of its elected officials, and corruption among government officials has never been worse,” the statement partly read.
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On your inauguration day in May 2023, you took a bold step of big mistake by announcing removal of fuel subsidy without any iota of consideration of the problems that could come with it. There was no time you considered calling a stakeholders meeting before taking this damning but very uneconomic decision. Tinubu, you came with all boldness but i did know that you had nothing to offer. You only wanted to be president, flooding the ministries and parastatals of government with your cronies. Now the governance is very difficult for you because you took very detrimental decisions. Where do we go from here now?
ReplyDeleteBut he only announced, he wasn't the one who removed it.. The past administration fixed the removal for MAY but oh well
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