Tinubu Will Spend All Of His Time As President In France – Peter Ameh

National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Peter Ameh has come out to share his thoughts on the current security and economic challenges in Nigeria.

He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the suffering among the masses is sad and very disheartening, especially because the current government was insensitive enough to remove fuel subsidy and make an already hard life for Nigerians even more difficult.

He added that just like we had Buhari spending most of his time in the UK, today, we now have a President who will spend all his time in France.

His words, “The suffering among the masses is sad and very disheartening. Today, the poverty level in Nigeria is something that can be felt because of the unplanned, unstructured removal of fuel subsidy. The removal without proper planning and proper arrangement to cushion the effect on the masses caused all these problems. When you look at the cost of transportation and what transportation adds to the cost of food prices in the market and how it affects the ordinary worker that earns N30,000 as minimum wage, or less than that, in most cases, you will know that these are directly digging deep into the pocket of the working class of Nigeria. The government didn’t know that transportation would skyrocket, and this transportation would affect the transport of food from Makurdi to Lagos, from Sokoto to Abuja, and these would affect the masses at the end of the consumer chain. So, it is painful that the government is insensitive; this government is arrogantly ignorant, and they are not accepting that they do not know what to do.

They are not calling for a national economic emergency meeting with stakeholders from the banking sector, the financial sector, stakeholders from rural communities, stakeholders from every other sector so that meetings can be done to look at how to quickly find solutions to the current hardship in the land. This current hardship is caused by the ineptitude of the current government. The APC generally has failed, and they are insensitive.

I wouldn’t tell you a lie; the opposition parties have to do more. Politics is not just about press statements. There has to be a physical presence of human protest, knowing full well that there is displeasure with what this government has done. Just like what happened in Minna recently, the opposition party must be ready to mobilise, must be ready to organise themselves, and must be ready to go on the streets to demand that this government sits up and that this government must be responsible and responsive to the current agitation by Nigerians. Nigerians are seriously suffering. So, I think it is necessary. Yes, the opposition parties are speaking. They are speaking, but we must now match our words with action and push.

Nigeria is back to Buhari’s era because if you listen to Adebayo Shittu, former Minister of Communication under former President Muhammadu Buhari, he said Buhari could give you an assignment and for four years, he might not even ask you about the assignment. Two, Buhari did not respect the law. Buhari wasn’t writing to the National Assembly to seek approval to travel abroad or informing them.

Buhari would stay overseas for weeks. Look at the countries that President Bola Tinubu has visited since May 29, in less than eight months. Look at how many times he has travelled. What are the direct foreign investments that he has attracted? Just like Buhari, none.

So, you will find out that Buhari spent most of his time in the UK. Today, we now have a President who spends all his time in France. He will not tell us the details of his journey. He’s not a private individual. He’s a public individual spending public resources, using public utilities, and living on public security. So, how will he continue to live a private life in a public status? We cannot autopilot this nation and expect it to work. We cannot run this country remotely and expect it to work. Tinubu shouldn’t allow Nigerians remember the Buhari days for good and begin to compare him with the former president.

It is disheartening and painful that we are experiencing these Buhari’s 2.0 governance system. It is disheartening that we must now start to take it seriously. Most painful is that we have a National Assembly that does not have enough courage, a National Assembly that does not have the necessary courage to ask questions and demand that the right thing be done by the President.”

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