Former presidential candidate of the African Renaissance Birthday party, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, has strongly criticized President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s financial insurance policies, describing them as inconsiderate and unfavourable to Nigeria’s financial system.
In an unique interview with South-East PUNCH, Ndu expressed considerations that those insurance policies have driven many Nigerians into endmost poverty.
He additionally criticised Tinubu’s management taste, labelling it a “civilian dictatorship.”
Ndu emphasized the desire for a lump participatory option to deal with the rustic’s demanding situations, arguing that liberty will have to be about energetic citizen engagement, now not simply electing leaders.
He identified that the blended votes of Tinubu, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, and Rabi’u Kwankwaso didn’t even achieve 20 according to cent of Nigeria’s people, highlighting the disconnect between the federal government and the family.
Ndu stated, “Community stated that President Tinubu is solely in energy a slight over a occasion and that he will have to be given the chance to show issues round, but if they stated this factor, I were given anxious as a result of we are meant to be training birthday celebration liberty and his birthday celebration has been in energy since 2015. The President was once the chief of APC. Such a lot of of the lead functionaries of the birthday celebration had been nominated through him or tutored through him.
“For instance, the current Chief of Staff was then Speaker of the House of Representatives and so on. In any case, when he came on board, he said he was coming to continue from where Buhari stopped. The point I was trying to make is that it is dishonest to say that he just met the trouble, and he is trying to fix it because he has always been part of the team led by Buhari since 2015.”
Ndu defined that birthday celebration liberty approach that you’re jointly answerable for the movements of your birthday celebration, insisting that the President’s henchmen will have to higher ban pulling the fable over the ocular of Nigerians through pronouncing he simply got here on board as a result of he has all the time been there.
“In spite of everything, I’m really not even shocked that he’s now not ready to deal with the status as a result of in a while sooner than the election I mentioned in a press convention that it’s both he does now not have the answers or that he’s now not patriotic. If he had the answers all alongside he would have given the answers to his birthday celebration to enforce even sooner than coming to be President and if he didn’t have the answers that supposed he didn’t have them, if he had them and he refused to place them on board for his birthday celebration to enforce, that suggests he was once now not patriotic. You don’t get the answer merely since you changed into President.
“In spite of everything, even throughout the electioneering marketing campaign to turn into President he persistently refused to reply to any query. Take into account even if he was at Chatham Area, when questions had been put to him, he delegated others round him like Nasir el-Rufai to reply to the questions for him. All through rallies when he was once meant to deal with family on his programmes he was once preserving broom and dancing.
“So, I’m really not shocked that issues are getting worse beneath him, however I’m really not blaming him as an individual, I’m blaming all folks for agreeing to be so fooled, now not simply by him however through the entire polity we’re working. If you happen to put all of the votes that Tinubu had within the election, whether or not rigged or unrigged, in combination and upload that one among Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Rabi’u Kwankwaso, they don’t come as much as 20 according to cent of the people of the family of Nigeria; and for those who stated as for individuals who voted, it’s nonetheless a particularly little proportion. Sovereignty is meant to be about lump participation.
“The technique to our issues can also be present in a lump participatory manner, in alternative phrases, if we’re seeking to contain programmes for technological development, you should manufacture a device that may outsource all our engineers, all our technologists whether or not at house or in diaspora to give a contribution in combination, to collate and marshall out what will have to be our technological development blueprint, likewise for condition. Our clinical docs, our pharmacists, and all the ones within the condition business will have to put their heads in combination. Thank God for info era; they don’t wish to reduce their bases in an effort to reason why in combination.
“This is the process we need to undertake to move this country forward. Nobody should pretend to be more Nigerian than the other. And nobody has any monopoly on knowledge. When all of us come together and work as one that is only when we can move this country forward.”
On gasoline subsidy, Ndu mentioned that the elimination of subsidies on Top class Motor Spirit was once the worst resolution of the Tinubu management.
He stated, “First of all, even though it was once meant to be the most productive resolution, it was once got rid of in probably the most incorrect conceivable method.
“You understand that he got rid of the gasoline subsidy even sooner than he had a cupboard throughout his swearing-in that greater than anything else is probably the most eloquent, crystal clear rationalization that this was once a civilian dictatorship, and if I had been in his place, if I feel that the most productive resolution is to take away the gasoline subsidy probably the most ordinary factor or the fundamentals factor my management would have executed is to, to begin with, inspire all the ones younger girls and boys who’re working what our nation prefers to name unlawful refineries who we ship our Wind Drive, squaddies and Military to break their refineries; my management will inspire them, keep watch over their merchandise, form certain that they don’t pollute the condition, backup them to get the crude oil on the least expensive conceivable value and suffocate all over the place with correctly delicate oil; by the way knowledge attaining us now says that Libya, as of this while is promoting one litre of PMS at N52.
“If Libya, an African folk can also be promoting PMS at N52 a litre and we’re promoting our personal formally at greater than one thousand naira a litre, one thing is incorrect with us.
“Everybody knows that it was a terrible decision, even he and his administration have realized that it was a terrible decision and that is why they are now talking about CNG, which if they realised that they were doing something terrible would have come before the removal of subsidies the way it was done.”