Afenifere, a sociopolitical organisation, has chastised President Bola Tinubu’s administration for his lack of empathy for the “agony and distressing state of the nation” that Nigerians are currently experiencing.
Rising from a meeting at the mansion of its leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, in Isanya-Ogbo, Ogun State, the group observed that the Federal Government sounded far from the “pervasive hardship, unflagging insecurity, and incapacitating hunger” that Nigerians faced.
According to the group, this lack of empathy was demonstrated by policies allegedly geared at exacerbating people’s problems, with the recent fuel price increase serving as the most recent example.
According to a communiqué issued by Afenifere Deputy Leader Oba Oladipo Olaitan and Deputy Secretary-General Alade Rotimi-John and made available to the press on Thursday, the group observed that the Tinubu government lacked a coherent plan of action to alleviate Nigerians’ hardship.
“Afenifere reviewed the unremitting distressing state of the nation’s social and economic situation under the President Bola Tinubu administration.
“Meeting observed that the distressful condition of the country is exemplified in pervasive hardship, unflagging insecurity, and incapacitating hunger.
“The meeting noted the absence of official empathy respecting the people’s agonising situation.
“Meeting has instead observed an unwearying policy enunciation ostensibly aimed at compounding the woes of the people, e.g., the unabating fuel price hike.
“Meeting further observed the cavalier conduct of state affairs in, for instance, the absence of any coherent or unequivocal program on the part of the government and its party.”
