PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Sunday, said President Tinubu’s admission in his speech that his administration is responsible for the current excruciating hardship in the country validates it’s position that this government lacks the competence, capacity, required skills and humaneness to effectively run the affairs of the nation.
President Tinubu in a speech to commemorate Nigeria’s 63rd independence anniversary, on Sunday urged Nigerians to endure current hardship, for a better future.
He said, “I am attuned to the hardships that have come. I have a heart that feels and eyes that see. I wish to explain to you why we must endure this trying moment. Those who sought to perpetuate the fuel subsidy and broken foreign exchange policies are people who would build their family mansion in the middle of a swamp.”
PDP insisted that Nigerians do not need to pass through agonising hardship as excused by President Tinubu if the nation is run by a government that has the required vision and skills to harness and manage Nigeria’s economic potential.
The opposition party insisted that “The ruling party manifest non-preparedness and hasty implementation of ill-planned policies by the current APC administration triggered a catastrophic economic failure with unprecedented crippling effect on the productive sector and agonising hardship on Nigerians.
Ologunagba said the ill-planned policies led to the closure and mass exodus of many multinational companies from the country, disabled millions of small and medium enterprises, and resulted in massive loss of jobs across the country.
It described as troubling that President Tinubu’s speech also had no clear-cut measures to revamp the critical sectors of manufacturing, agriculture, food production, transportation, healthcare, education, and other pivotal sectors of life in the country.
PDP noted that “It is heartrending that the President’s speech had no words on the mindless killings, maiming, abductions and mass burial of citizens in various parts of the country under his watch. He had no reassuring words on the abduction of students in Zamfara State as well as other victims of such dastardly acts across the country.”
On the welfare package announced by President, Tinubu the PDP asserted that there is nothing to cheer “over such spiteful tokenism where, amidst unbearable costs, President Tinubu announced a miserable N25,000 per month for six months for average low-grade workers, while still being aspirational on his promise of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses.
The statement read in part “It is also certain, from antecedents, that the promised cash transfer programs to an additional 15 million vulnerable households, would be another conduit pipe to divert public funds to corrupt APC leaders.
“Our Party invites Nigerians to note that President Tinubu’s speech has left no one in doubt that the APC administration has no plans, capacity, and competence to handle the crucial and urgent task of governance; which is clearly beyond its managerial faculty.”
