Socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has chided President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the absence of official empathy concerning the “agony and distressing state of the nation,” which Nigerians are presently grappling with.
Rising from a meeting held at
the residence of its leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, at Isanya-Ogbo, Ogun State, the
group lamented that the Federal Government sounded distant from the “pervasive
hardship, unflagging insecurity and incapacitating hunger,” that Nigerians
grappled with.
According to the group, this
lack of empathy was evidenced by policies ostensibly aimed at compounding the
woes of the people, citing the recent fuel price hike as the latest in such a
posture.
Contained in a communique by
the Afenifere Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan and Deputy Secretary-General,
Alade Rotimi-John, made available to The PUNCH on Thursday, the group said it
observed that there was the absence of a coherent programme of action by the
Tinubu government to alleviate the hardship faced by Nigerians.
“Afenifere reviewed the
unremitting distressing state of the nation’s social and economic situation
under the President Bola Tinubu administration.
“Meeting observed that the
distressful condition of the country is exemplified in pervasive hardship,
unflagging insecurity and incapacitating hunger.
“The meeting noted the absence
of official empathy respecting the people’s agonising situation.
“Meeting has instead observed
an unwearying policy enunciation ostensibly aimed at compounding the woes of
the people, e.g. the unabating fuel price hike.
“Meeting further observed the
cavalier conduct of state affairs in, for instance, the absence of any coherent
or unequivocal programme on the part of the government and its party.”
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