The publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, has said he was left shocked by President Bola Tinubu’s broadcast to the nation on Sunday morning.
In a post on X, Momodu said the
President failed to address the demands of ongoing protesters across the
country.
Tinubu addressed Nigerians on
Sunday, three days after the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests started.
The protesters had made several
demands, including a return of fuel subsidies, improvements in living
standards, cuts in the cost of governance, reduction in electricity tariffs,
and solutions to escalating insecurity, among others.
Reacting to Tinubu’s broadcast,
Momodu said, “After the long-awaited speech of President Bola Tinubu eventually
came this morning, I’m sure most of you would be as stupefied as me.
“I must confess that I had
little hope of Tinubu granting some concessions to the aggrieved Nigerians. As
a man who has held an iron grip on Lagos State for the last 25 years, it would
be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him ever
since.
“Also, what did we expect his
advisers to be telling him when most of them have been his most fanatical
cronies from Lagos who have learnt never to challenge the master?
“So it was merely wishful
thinking on the part of incurable optimists like me to think he was going to
have mercy on hapless and seemingly helpless Nigerians.”
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