Prof. Usman Yusuf, a member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), stated that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has turned into hopelessness.
Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), claimed this during an interview with Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
According to him, rather than instilling optimism in Nigerians, the Tinubu administration has made them even more hopeless over the previous year.
He said, “People have lost hope. It pains me to see our people lining up to collect cups of palliatives. Renewed hope has turned into hopelessness. People have lost hope.
“The last year has been a year of nothing but deception, destitution, and hopelessness.
“From next week, they will start telling us their propaganda. What have they done to benefit ordinary people?
“In a span of one year, they have brought millions of people back into multidimensional poverty; they have pushed millions more children out of school because their parents cannot pay their school fees.”
Yusuf stated that the economic management team of the President is “tax collectors” rather than “economists.”
“The economic team, to me, looks more like tax collectors than economists. Taxation does not grow the economy; only production does,” he said.
Remember that Tinubu campaigned on the mantra of ‘Renewed Hope.’
The President was sworn in on May 29, 2023, after a keenly contested election in February 2023.
