From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has accused Presidential Economic Team of derailing President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
Okechukwu, in an open letter written to the economic team, urged it to reverse their gear and listen to Albeit Einstein’s admonition; that it’s illogical doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
He said that as a roadside political economist, he is crying out in pain over the inadvertent derailing of the Renewed Hope Agenda, adding that he is yet to reconcile how the programme could be successfully executed when only 25 per cent of the 2024 Capital Budget was released; in addition to the regrettable operation of multi-budgets.
“I am making this humble appeal because I am not the only foundation member of the APC who wants our great party to succeed; albeit many do not want our great to go into 2027 general elections limping in the midst of widespread discontent, despondency and despair.
“Secondly, one sincerely thinks that President Tinubu means well and wants to successfully consolidate the neoliberal capitalist system by taking bold decisions to bolster economic resorgimento in Nigeria via his Renewed Hope Agenda.
“Luckily for us Nigerians, President Tinubu has harvested the fine tenets of classical Non-Alignment-Doctrine; consequent upon his cordial diplomatic relationship with the West and the East.
“Hence Mr President inspite of the economic hardship and gross inequality has mobilised all the necessary international powers to utilise our demographic youth advantage in an aging world to consolidate the CHANGE our great party APC pledged in July 2013.
“This is why am appealing to the Presidential Economic Team to reverse their gear and listen to Albeit Einstein’s admonition; that it’s illogical doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Therefore let’s assist Mr President to succeed and pull out of this adverse economic condition so that Nigerians can breathe.
“Accordingly this why as a roadside political economist am crying out in pain over the inadvertent derailing of the Renewed Hope Agenda. For am yet to reconcile how the program could be successfully executed when only 25% of the 2024 Capital Budget was released; moreover when we are regrettably operating multi-budgets,” Okechukwu noted in the open letter.