Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress has called out President Bola Tinubu.
According to Punch, he rejected
what he described as the excuses and blame game dished out by the presidency as
the cause of the deepening economic woes.
Eze says President Bola Ahmed
Tinubu and his team seem entrapped in a quagmire as hope is nowhere in sight to
get the country out of the pickle.
The APC chieftain claims that
the Nigerian economy has progressively continued in a free fall while the value
of the Naira to other convertible currencies is steadily on a downward trend
and is nearing a state of worthlessness in the international money market.
He noted that the effect of the
uninterrupted journey of the Naira to its place of final rest is the hike in
the price of food and other basic commodities.
Eze noted that the attendant
reality is the hunger and starvation that is feasible on the faces of angry
Nigerians, who, according to him, are unsure of a square meal for each passing
day and most of whom go to bed each night hungry.
Despite the overwhelming
challenges of the time which has sealed Nigeria’s place as the poverty capital
of the world, Eze wondered why some analysts still hold the view that Tinubu is
right in his policies.
Countering the assertions of
pro-Tinubu commentators, Chief Eze said: “Assuming the policies were good, with
very little or no thought towards the complex chains of reciprocal interactions
and variables required in the translation of policies into actions, there is
bound to be a widening gap between intentions and results as is the case in the
present.”
In a statement made available
to the media, the politician expressed shock over a recent comment credited to
Vice President Kashim Shittima, who had inferred that politicians who lost in
the 2023 general election were orchestrating a plot to destabilize Nigeria.
Describing Shetima’s claims as
inconsequential, Eze said Tinubu was never prepared to make any meaningful
impact in Nigeria, adding that his only concern was to be President and nothing
more.
“The pernicious effects of
perpetual poverty have become real under his administration and these are his
chief legacies,” he said
“There seems to be no efforts
by the present administration in tackling the economic concerns of the country
and if there are, he said, it means such efforts are not good enough and
shifting blame to patriots who are in their private capacities thinking out
ways to help the country is to say the least myopic.
“I laugh at the reasons
expounded by some of our leaders and Scholars as the factors behind our present
food Crisis. They failed to highlight insecurity as the main bane of the present
economic woes facing Nigeria.
“Where do we get the food to
eat when most of the farmers both in the North and Southern sections of this
country particularly those in the North Central are now in the IDP Camps
leaving their farms in the hands of herders?
“And we are busy fooling ourselves
that we don’t have enough food to feed the populace. What part of Nigeria is
safe or secure for normal farming activities to take place?
“This is the reality. Our
problem is human-induced yet we are expecting God to send us manna from Heaven
as he did to the people of Israel who had no means of farming at the period God
sent manna to them."
Eze highlighted that apart from
insecurity another major cause of Nigeria’s present woes was the inability of
the President who in 2012 highlighted the consequences of the removal of
subsidy but was carried away by his election victory and announced without a
proper study and provision to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians, the
removal of oil subsidy.
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