Tinubu’s Inauguration Speech Shallow, Lacks Tangible Solutions To Nation’s Problems -Labour Party
Mobolaji Michael
THE Labour Party (LP) has described President Bola Tinubu’s inauguration speech as shallow and without any tangible solution to myriads of challenges being faced by Nigerians.
LP in a statement signed by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, said it was a shame that the new President gloats over an electoral victory when Nigerians know the truth about the election.
“The Labour Party is disappointed with the inaugural speech made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu which clearly exposed the shallowness and policy incongruity that his administration, while it lasts, is hoping to bequeath Nigerians.
“First, the President described ‘the election that brought him to power as tough but fairly won’. He also said that today was the proudest day of his life. However, we consider that speech as defective in many ways. The late President Umaru Yar’Adua, recall, on the inauguration of his government, did state that the election that brought him to power was flawed and imperfect but he promised that he was going to fix the electoral system.
“But today, Nigerians were aghast with the boldness and glee with which Tinubu declared his election as fair. We consider this audacity as a slap on the faces of millions of Nigerians who voted their conscience but were robbed by a collective power of state institutions and brute bringandry unleashed on them.
“Nigerians will not forget in a hurry that unction by the then-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu to “grab power and run with it,” a directive that was effected on the 25 February election day.
“What was witnessed today (Monday) was a celebration of lies and deceit, and that explains why the streets are like graveyards with no pomp and pageantry usually associated with a major feat like what we had today (Monday).
“Again, Labour Party, while campaigning, told Nigerians that if given the privilege to preside, we will, among other things, change our economy from consumption to production and we provided tangible ways we could achieve that policy.”
“But listening to President Tinubu today (Monday) reading a speech believed to have been penned by his team, it became obvious that we are returning to the 2015 era where we had great expectations but without any means achieving them.
“In the last eight years, Nigerians were constantly fed with the narratives that the previous government of the PDP brought economic and political calamity upon the nation. In all those years, the Buhari government made little or no effort to improve upon these challenges. Nigeria is again about to be confronted with a similar scenario if not a worse scenario.
“We are now calling on the highest office in Nigeria, the office of the people, not to allow this government any space to toil with the destiny of this nation again. APC ruined this nation and we must not allow a worse situation again. We must wake up to our roles of holding to account those in positions of authority”, the statement read in parts.
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