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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
The Action Democratic Congress (ADC), on Tuesday, berated the Federal Government over the state of affairs in the country.
The national chairman, Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu, while speaking at the 76th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, of the party, in Abuja, said there have been many policy flops since President Bola Tinubu assumed office.
Nwosu, while speaking on the theme “crusade for national rebirth, democracy. Let’s leverage on the depth of handshake to lift Nigeria,” expressed dismay that Nigerians started experiencing hardship from the first day of Tinubu’s administration.
According to him, “It is irreconcilable that a democratically elected government will on day one impose hardship on the people. To increase the price of any commodity by over 400 percent from day one by a new administration is not only callous, it is cruel, dangerous, and evil, it shows the mind and heart of the Presidency and elected officials of the day and their advisers.
“The policy flops are too many and have set all tiers, arms and agencies of government on fire alert while our fire brigades are in comatose. That has resulted in policy summersault at every stage of President Tinubu’s led government.
“The economy is in shambles. The monetary framework of the Central Bank of Nigeria can no longer be trusted to stabilize the Naira as our foreign reserve has been depleted to rock bottom. The administration goes cap in hand looking for investors and loans. But the environmental analysis is damning.”
The party chairman added that “the security situation is awful. Bandits still occupy many Local governments and farm areas. Kidnapping for ransom and other vices are rampant. The streets are not safe. Transportation is grinding to a halt; either by air or road. The road infrastructure and security situation discourage road travel apart from fuel costs. The airports are becoming ghost and isolated areas.
“The consequence of this policy gaffe can only be imagined. In due time, I pray that our scholars, researchers, and various data mapping organizations will be able to show the morbidity, mortality, poverty, loan defaults, business closures, insecurity, and quantum of investment blockage (local and foreign) that singular action has caused.”
“Many families are so impoverished that they can neither afford the transportation cost to take their sick ones to the hospital, many cannot afford the hospital bills while many more cannot pay mortuary bills or afford the funeral costs.”
