… Laments that Tinubu’s presidency has savagely turned Nigeria into a battlefield of severe hunger and poverty
By Williams Adesoji
Abuja, Nigeria – Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is responsible For Nigeria’s Economic woes, prominent Nigerian social critic, human rights and pro-democracy activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta has asserted.
Nowinta made the assertion in Abuja on Monday while reacting to the recent statement credited to the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu that: “Tinubu did not cause Nigeria’s present economic challenges.”
Nowinta, Executive Director, Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre (NGGRC), who is also an international conflict resolution expert, said “The First Lady is facetious around current hunger and starvation in the land by trying to make her husband a saint in the valley of hopelessness created by Bola Tinubu”.
It would be recalled that during Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s visit to the Palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, last week Friday October 11, 2024, she emphasized that the Tinubu administration was still in its early stages; that her husband was not responsible for Nigeria’s economic challenges; that her family was grateful for how much they have been blessed and that they were not greedy to exploit the country.
He said, “The First Lady is facetious around current hunger and starvation in the land by trying to make her husband a saint in the valley of hopelessness created by Bola Tinubu”.
It would be recalled that during Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s visit to the Palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, last week Friday 11th October, 2024, she emphasized that the Tinubu administration is still in its early stages; that his husband was not responsible for Nigeria’s economic challenges; that her family was grateful for how much they have been blessed and that they were not greedy to exploit the country.
“Who announced to the whole world that subsidy regime in Nigeria was gone on May 29th, 2023, during his inauguration as President of Nigeria? Tinubu of course! Who has presided over the current destruction of the naira? Tinubu! Who has watched helplessly as the pump prices of petroleum products skyrocketed beyond sanity, as Minister of Petroleum? Tinubu! One can go on and on”
Nowinta said it is unfortunate and tragic that the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has failed to realize the impotence of her husband in fashioning out good governance to the people of Nigeria.
“This level of shamelessness and effrontery being displayed by the First Lady is baffling,” he noted.
Continuing, he said: “Here is a sitting President who has shattered the Nigerian landscape with unprecedented agonies and pains; reduced our people to broken objects; holding the people hostage, yet the First Lady is facetious around current hunger and starvation in the land by trying to make her husband a saint in the valley of hopelessness created by Bola Tinubu.”
Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre, he stated is horrified by the current epic human suffering and indescribable hunger in the land.
“We see compound of apathy and coldness being meted to Nigerian people, while few rascals in power continue to rake in petro-dollars, and the oil industry generating stupendous revenue, is being subjected to bewildered sophisticated stealing under the breath of a President who doubles as Minister of Petroleum?”
“As the maddening rush by a cohort of bandits to access petro-dollars continues, our people are subjected to neglect and utter marginalization, while in the midst of impoverishment Mr President is junketing around the world with a brand new private jet going for billions of dollars; even as the office of the First Lady has allegedly consumed N701 million on foreign travels”.
“We see a man and his wife leading us to nowhere, draining the blood of our people and has robbed us of so much wealth as never before in our chequered history. This development is really crazy and amazing cold blooded wastages of our abundant resources, as Tinubu’s presidency has savagely turned Nigeria into a battle field of severe hunger and poverty”.
“We hereby call on Nigerians to perpetually demand genuine transformational leadership that will urgently empower them from the nadir of hopelessness. We should be able to tell the likes of the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, that no amount of fabrication of fiction around glaring reality will deter us from speaking truth to power”.
