Tinubu’s First Minute In Office Was Marked By Unprecedented Infliction- CUPP

According to the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), the policies implemented by the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in Nigeria has made worst the country’s economic conditions, effectively resulting in poverty over the course of the last one year.

The CUPP’s National Spokesman, Comrade Mark Adebayo, stated on Tuesday in Abuja regarding the state of the country following one year of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, He reiterated that many Nigerians had assumed President Tinubu would perform slightly better than his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, in the areas of economy, security, education, health, infrastructure, and so forth.

”Nigeria was unlucky to have a president whose first minute in office was characterized by the imposition of unparalleled agony on the populace for the first time in this nation’s history.;;

According to him, CUPP may fairly infer that the country’s position has not only drastically become worse but is becoming worse every day based on the last year of another APC government.

According to Adebayo, Nigeria has been taken over by regressive forces both domestically and internationally who have an avaricious and insatiable desire to mortgage the country’s commonwealth for their own personal gain.

Nigerians had already experienced what can only be called the most brutal economic assault, which turned our lives upside down, caused businesses to fail, took food off millions of tables, sent millions of children out of school, and dramatically increased insecurity, even before the new president left Eagle Square, where he was sworn in

Shattered lives and irreversibly split marriages due to the country’s inflation rate suddenly tripling and fuel costs rising by almost 600%.

“These incidents occurred in the first sixty seconds of Tinubu’s administration, and Nigerians have still not fully recovered from that catastrophe. Mass agony, mass hunger, mass poverty, and a government completely indifferent to the plights of Nigerians were all part of his welcoming present to Nigerians.

“The abrupt elimination of the subsidies was vile and careless! The president deviated from the plan and declared that the subsidy was eliminated, unleashing economic hardship on Nigerians in the absence of any protective policy frameworks.

Our happiness, optimism, and high hopes for a Tinubu administration that most believed was going to bring us a new chapter of growth, prosperity, peace, and advancement—as he fervently campaigned on throughout the election campaign—went with the subsidies.

He insisted that there isn’t a single explanation for the removal of subsidies in the way it was carried out. The single factor in that anti-people action that has reduced our Naira to barely better than waste paper.

According to Adebayo, was the president’s desperation to implement the neo-liberal economic policies purportedly imposed by the International Monetary Fund and other global financial institutions that seek to keep Africa perpetually backward.

“A year later, feelings of uneasiness are growing. Right here in the center of Abuja, kidnappers and one-chance criminals are on rampage. Just that the crime rates in Abuja are being underreported by the media and the victims because of their lack of confidence in our security agencies.

Just last week, a friend was kidnapped from Wuse Zone 1 and all her accounts were wiped clean, dispossessed of all her belongings and abandoned in an isolated place after hours of driving around Abuja without being accosted by security agents. She narrowly escaped death.

“To think that Abuja, the seat of government power and authority, where the president lives, where the IG of Police and all the heads of military, paramilitary and intelligence agencies, including the National Security Adviser reside can be this insecure is more than troubling. If they cannot secure Abuja where they are all resident, how can anyone expect them to secure entire Nigeria?

“For the past one week or more, we have seen ministers under this government reel out fantastic statistics about how wonderfully they had performed in the last one year, but Nigerians cannot see those wonderful things they are claiming to have achieved. It’s all about the more you look, the less you see. It is all audio without visuals.

“The real statistics is that there is greater unemployment and job losses in the last one year. It is that majority of Nigerians have been economically disempowered as micro- and macroeconomic enterprises are collapsing in droves.

“When we talk about state capture, time will not permit us to interrogate the activities of a company like the Chagoury group. But very soon we shall do a thorough analysis of how this group’s activities cannot be said to be in the overall interest of Nigeria as a country except to benefit those in this government who romance that group.

“The so-called Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, for instance, is a wasteful white elephant project with no immediate direct economic benefits to Nigerians.

“This government has not performed well in the last one year at all and this is not opposition cynicism. It is both factual and real for all to see. All Nigerians understand that things have not been this bad.

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“This government is both confused and clueless which informs the series of policy somersaults and trial by error they have been engaging in for the past one year which throws the socioeconomic space into more confusion and crises.

“This situation must teach Nigerians to take full advantage of the fundamental elements of democracy about the capacity of the citizens to make informed choices at periodic elections. Whatever we got wrong in 2023, we must get right in 2027 by making the right choice devoid of the current voids and damnation.

“We have all seen what this government can do and nobody should be under any illusion that anything dramatic can change for the better except if it would worsen. They have nothing more to offer except fake promises and unverifiable statistics full of lies”, he added.