Lagos, July 30, 2023 – Afenifere, the pan Yoruba socio-political group, has described President Tinubu’s policies as anti-people.
It said Tinubu’s administration had been insensitive to the sufferings and plights of Nigerians with the sudden and harsh removal of petrol subsidy among others.
In a statement issued by the group at the weekend and signed by its Secretary General, Sola Ebiseni, the group said the implementation of the “thoughtless policies will further plunge Nigeria’s economy down the slope.”
The group said the policies had further compounded the suffering of the common Nigerians through the multiplier effects of the removal of petrol subsidy, intractable fall of the naira and surreptitious increase in school fees in federal government secondary and tertiary educational institutions.
It said the policies had improvised more people s the number of extremely poor Nigerians had continued to grow
“It is indeed a matter of grave concern that a party and its candidate which made subsidy removal a cardinal campaign issue, did not have a plan on ground to introduce the necessary countervailing palliative to protect the people and the economy,” the statement said.
It called on President Tinubu to look for ways to reduce the cost of governance.
The group said that while no one would frown over the need for sacrifices by citizens to restore the fiscal viability of the country, but such sacrifice must be made by all and in a progressive manner.
It said that those in positions of leadership must lead by example in order to address the inordinate cost of governance
“Nigeria is currently caught in a labyrinth of inclement weather of a convoluted election process and its unwieldy outcomes, intractable security problems and the nightmarish aftermath of a sudden and harsh removal of petrol subsidy on the other.
“In less than six weeks, an already asphyxiating economy reeling under the crushing impact of hyperinflation, unemployment, mass hunger and poverty foisted by the gross ineptitude and incompetence that characterized the watch of eight years is looking like an episode drawn straight out of Dante’s Hell,” the statement read. (GBN)
