The Labour Party (LP) has said it was disappointment with
President Bola Tinubu’s statement which it described as making mockery of
Nigeria’s poor.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, in a
a chat with Vanguard, in Abuja, yesterday said the President needed to be
reminded that he was elected into office
to reduce if not eliminate poverty and not exercerbate it.
He spoke in response to President Tinubu’s statement that
Nigerians were not the only ones suffering from poverty.
Ifoh said, “We are disappointed but not surprised by the
comments made by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu about the excruciating poverty his
administration’s policies have unleashed on Nigerians since he took office over
a year ago.
“It was to say the least disheartening to hear Mr. President
mock his citizens by saying Nigerians are not the only ones facing poverty.
“Assuming but not conceding that what he said is true,
Nigerians who are at the receiving end of his harsh economic policies don’t
need to be reminded about the pain and hunger they have been forced to live
with by the very people who put them in that situation in the first place.
“May be this administration needs to be reminded that it was
elected to reduce if not eliminate poverty, hunger and disease but what we have
seen is an obsession with opulence.
“We are yet to get over the billions appropriated for the
renovation of the President and Vice President’s lodges, now we hear they want
new jets to join the Presidential fleet.”
He further said, “Our schools and health institutions are on
their knees, the same government claims it cannot afford to pay public servants
a living wage but has enough to make itself comfortable at the expense of the
suffering masses.
“Mr. President, we
implore you to uphold the constitution you swore to protect. The constitution
says the security and welfare of the populace shall be the primary purpose of
the existence of your government. Enough is this mockery.”
Atiku’s responds
Speaking in a similar vein, former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar, speaking through his Special Adviser, Paul Ibe said, “There’s a
saying that the baby goat watches the mother goat eating grass and consequently
learns to eat grass.
“There are little or no values nurtured and promoted by
Tinubu and his administration. What Nigerians are seeing it manifest is
insensitivity, bigotry, nepotism, corruption, and wastfulness.
“For the President to speak about us finding a way to
eliminate banditry and terrorism is an acknowledgement of failure.
“ What we expect to hear from him are the measures and the
strategy to deal with the menace and not to regale us with the problems that we
are all well aware of.
“The poverty in Nigeria is multidimensional. It was exacerbated
by the policies of the Tinubu administration that does not priotise production
and cutting costs.
“Policies that were not well thought out and are only aimed
at pauperizing the citizens. Tinubu’s trial-and-error policies have continued
to dig the country deeper into economic degradation.
“ His government is characterised by a lack of transparency
and accountability. For example, his administration is paying for subsidy,
contrary to the claims that it is gone for good.
“According to his minister of finance, last year (the very
same year they allegedly stopped payment of subsidy), Tinubu paid a subsidy of
N3.6 trillion and this year, he is projected to pay a subsidy of N5.4 trillion.
“Why are they lying about this other than to divert money
away from the Federation Account. Truth be told, Tinubu is the one causing the
deepening poverty in the country.”
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