The former National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, has described President Bola Tinubu as inaccessible.
In a statement released
Tuesday, September 17, Lukman said former Nigerian leader, late Head of State,
General Sani Abacha, was more accessible than President Tinubu.
He also called on former
Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, as well as retired General
Aliyu Gusau, to innovate strategies that could displace the APC from power in
2027.
He said Nigerians are currently
facing an existential crisis because the nation’s democracy is in the Intensive
Care Unit, ICU.
“More than at any time in the history of
Nigeria, citizens are being impoverished on an alarming scale. Since May 29,
2023, when President Asiwaju took over, it has been a downward slide for
Nigerians. Being a democratic government, the expectation would have been that
President Tinubu will be more accessible. Alas, he is proving to be the most
inaccessible leader of Nigeria. Even late General Sani Abacha was by far more
accessible. All previous military governments are turning out to be much more
open to consultations and receptive to recommendations from Nigerians than the
government of President Asiwaju Tinubu.
As President of the Federal
Republic, President Asiwaju Tinubu is showing his worst side. Some of the key
projects of the last government have been abandoned.
A good example is Kaduna-Abuja
Road, which is becoming a death trap. But without any budgetary provision, a
new project of more than N15 trillion, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway,
started.
Meanwhile, public investment
towards addressing the challenges of insecurity is at best business as usual.
And the crisis of insecurity is reduced to ceremonial show of shame and public
lamentations by leaders,” he stated.
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