President Tinubu Should Provide A Comprehensive Account Of Nigeria’s Earnings – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has come out to describe the New Year speech by President Bola Tinubu as a harvest of deceit, false claims and empty promises.

The party recently had its say via a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, Tinubu’s speech is uninspiring and amounts to a waste of valuable time, simply because it did not address any of the critical issues plaguing the nation.

He added that what Nigerians demand of President Tinubu is for him to provide a comprehensive account of our nation’s earnings, especially in the face of allegations that the earnings are being diverted to private pockets of APC leaders and their cronies.

His words, “Nigerians were dismayed as President Tinubu employed rhetoric and failed to address the critical issues of insecurity, decayed infrastructure, comatose manufacturing, and productive sectors; crushing 28% inflation rate, continuing plunge of the Naira, alarming unemployment, excruciating poverty and economic hardship occasioned by the reckless, ill-advised and insensitive policies and programmes of his administration, the opposition party stated.

On the contrary, all decisions and actions of the Tinubu Presidency including the approval of an increase in the pump price of fuel from N167 to over N700 per liter, devaluation of the naira with the consequential high costs and hardship; skewing of the 2024 budget in favour of luxury appetite of the Presidency and APC leaders without concrete policies to revive the economy and create jobs; the wasteful foreign trips with political cronies and failure to address the mindless killings across the nation cannot be said to be in the interest of our country.

President Tinubu ought to have used the opportunity presented by the New Year to apologize to Nigerians and marshal out steps to address our national challenges, including those responsible for the exiting of multinational manufacturing companies and other businesses from our country.

What Nigerians demand of President Tinubu is to provide a comprehensive account of our nation’s earnings including the proceeds from the removal of subsidy on petroleum products, especially in the face of allegations that the earnings are being diverted to private pockets of APC leaders and their cronies.

The National Assembly is invited to step up and perform its Constitutional role of oversight to hold the Executive Arm accountable as the custodian of the purse of the nation.”