Bishop Seun Adeoye, an Osun-based activist and cleric, has described President Bola Tinubu’s three months in office as a period of great hardship for Nigerians.
Expressing his displeasure at the current situation in the country in a statement on Tuesday, Adeoye noted that “businesses are collapsing, hunger now pervades the land, and many who appear to be alive are walking corpses” under the Tinubu-led administration.
He further stated that the hardships and sufferings Nigerians endure under Tinubu’s administration has become unbearable.
Adeoye lamented that while Tinubu and his family live in the comfort, affluence, and security of the Aso Rock Villa, Nigerians are kidnapped and killed on a daily basis by bandits who are still having their “field days in our own country.”
He said “today, the 29th of August, marks three months of Tinubu’s government. But within these three months, businesses are collapsing, people are becoming jobless, hunger now pervades the land, and many who appear to be alive are just walking corpses.
“Let the truth be told, this ‘ground’ is not ‘running’, Mr. President. It has been three months of extreme hardship and suffering for Nigerians. And it is virtually becoming unbearable.
“You and your family are up there in a secured Aso Rock. Those who surround you are big men. They can’t feel the pain the way we, the people, do. ‘Igboro o rerin, sir.” I mean, people are not happy at all. We cannot pretend because there is sadness everywhere.
“Is there anything new done by this administration that has never been done? None. Our ‘City Boy’ almost dragged us into war with the Niger Republic while terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers are still having their field days in our own country. The other day, soldiers were slaughtered in Niger State, and some intending youth corps members were kidnapped in Zamfara.
“A new government ought to have even shown some signs of strength, but killings in Plateau, Niger, Benue States, and other places were manifestations of the continuity’ of the past.”
Lamenting the removal of fuel subsidy and the palliatives distributed by Tinubu to all the states of the federation, Adeoye stated that the palliatives “are mere political statements.
According to him, “prices of foodstuffs and transportation have gone up astronomically, and the masses are crying.”
He said, “Subsidy is gone, but the so-called palliatives are mere political statements. A N5 billion gift to a state with 5 million people is just N1,000 per person. Yet, the prices of foodstuffs and transportation have gone up astronomically, and the masses are crying.
“Mr. President, your 100,000 bags of rice per state is a huge joke. It can’t be one ‘kongo or mudu’ each per family. I don’t trade in foreign currency, but how’s the dollar market today compared to when you took over?”
While calling on Nigerians to keep praying for the country and her leaders, the cleric noted that “soon, very soon, we’ll be overwhelmed by propaganda and sponsored performance statistics. But the fact remains that this government has not only taken food off the tables of the masses but has successfully taken smiles off their cheeks”.
