The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rubbished the 63rd independence anniversary speech delivered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier on Sunday, saying it is bereft of ideas and clearly shows the President and his party lack the capacity to manage Nigeria.
The PDP in a statement on
Sunday by its national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba also alleged that
the gross inefficiency of Tinubu has subjected Nigerians to unnecessary
hardships.
The opposition party said that
is clear that Tinubu and those working with him “lack the competence, capacity,
required skills and humaneness to effectively run the affairs of the nation.”
The statement added that
Tinubu’s speech did not provide any form of comfort for Nigerians whom he has
thrown into suffering with his policies.
According to Ologunagba, it is
worrying that President Tinubu’s independence speech failed to provide any
solution or workable plan on how to stop the continuous fall of the Naira
against the Dollar, revamp the economy, and address insecurity and
unemployment.
The full statement reads: “The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that the 63rd Independence Day Address
by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is empty, bereft of ideas and merely
aspirational in the wrong direction especially in the face of the harrowing and
life-discounting experiences being encountered by Nigerians under the All
Progressives Congress (APC)administrations.
“President Tinubu’s admission
in his speech that his administration is responsible for the current
excruciating hardship in the country validates PDP’s position that the
Tinubu-led government lacks the competence, capacity, required skills and
humaneness to effectively run the affairs of the nation.
“The PDP insists that Nigerians
do not need to pass through agonizing hardship as being excused by President
Tinubu if the nation is run by a government that has the required vision and
skills to harness and manage our economic potentials, national comparative
advantage and expanded value chain that abound in our vast but dormant
productive sector.
“The expectation of Nigerians
on a day like this was for a Presidential speech that will provide concrete
solution to critical challenges of the nation including security as well as the
crisis in the electricity and petroleum sectors.
“Indeed, any serious government
with requisite capacity and vision will set a Marshall Plan on every critical
sector which have capacity to galvanize and stimulate the economy through job
creation.
“Our Party holds that the 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 agonizing hardship
on Nigerians.
“The ill-planned policies led
to the closure and mass exodus of many multinational companies from our
country, disabled millions of Small and Medium Enterprises and resulted to
massive loss of jobs across the country.
“It is 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.
“The President’s speech
articulated no solutions to the fall of the Naira from N187 to the US Dollar
under the PDP to over N1000 under his watch; no answers to the alarming over
40% unemployment rate and the fact that Nigerians are now daily fleeing the country
in droves.
“Furthermore, 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 much-touted welfare package, the PDP asserts 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.
“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
fund 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.”
Post a Comment