A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Eze
Chukwuemeka Eze, has stated that more Nigerians have committed suicide under
the current administration of Bola Tinubu than ever before.
He said the comment by former Minister of Transportation,
Chibuike Amaechi, that he is hungry, was a reflection of the reality about the
hunger ravaging Nigerians under what he called the clueless administration of
President Tinubu.
Eze, in a statement on Tuesday, appealed to the President
and his allies to pay attention to the bizarre suffering, hunger and starvation
that, according to him, was fast becoming an enduring legacy of the current
regime.
He also said that the current administration had resorted to
gagging critiques and forcefully stifling dissenting voices, including the
media who attempt to bring to fore instances of the monumental failures of the
government.
“As it is in Nigeria today, under the insensitive and
clueless government of President Tinubu, it is an act most abominable for any
Nigerian to say he is hungry. In fact, it is now a national taboo and
sanctionable crime for Tinubu’s men to hear that Nigerians are hungry.
“Imagine, Tinubu, beating Nigerians, impoverished by his
obnoxious, anti-people and self-serving economic policies, and yet, doesn’t
want them to cry out over hunger,” he stated.
According to Eze, an ally of Amaechi, rather than vilify and
call for the former Minister’s head, Tinubu and his errand boys should have
embraced what he called the noble and sincere advice of the 2-time Director
General of the Buhari Campaign Organization, and go back to what he referred to
as their non-existing economic blueprint to see what they can do to save
Nigerians from devastating hunger ravaging the country.
He went on, “Amaechi, saying he is hungry is a subtle way of
advising Tinubu to have a rethink and save Nigerians from dying. It’s a hard
truth, that must be said without minding whose ox is gourd. It is speaking
truth to power. It’s nothing but the truth.
“Without mincing words, Amaechi made the statement to draw
the attention of the insensitive Tinubu’s Government and the entire world to
the unending hunger and abject poverty situation causing most Nigerians to
commit suicide, and not sure of their next meal.
“It is important that the world be put on notice about the
seriousness of the poverty situation in the country where Nigerians who can no
longer fend for their families are resorting to suicide, to end the agony,
trauma and embarrassment that beseech their inability to provide for their
household.
“More Nigerians have committed suicide for this reason under
the current regime than any other administration in the annals of the country’s
history, whereas the President and his cabinet members and those close to them
live extravagantly at the expense of the common patrimony.
“The situation under Tinubu’s watch is bad to the extent
that apart from those that are either in Government or engaged in looting or in
the NNPC or any Government Agency where public funds are not accounted for,
everyone else is hungry and at the same time angry at the President and his
regime of Incompetence.
“Contrary to the reasoning of the Minister of Federal
Capital Territory, Barr. Nyesom Wike, a man that was moulded, tutored and
brought to political limelight by Amaechi, the statement of the former
Transportation Minister, literally did not mean he can’t feed himself or his
family.
“It is sad that many, including Wike and his bootlickers,
deliberately misunderstood what Amaechi was trying to highlight that the
present Federal Government under Tinubu’s watch, has brought so much untold
hardship and pitiable hunger to Nigerians.
“Amaechi’s statement was a pointer to the fact that it is
either you are in government or you are one of those engaged in looting of the
country’s treasury, or in NNPC or government agencies where public funds are
not accounted for, that you will not feel the pang of hunger.
“But I strongly know and Nigerians also know that Wike and
Tinubu’s aides know that Nigerians are truly hungry and desirous of food on
their tables. They should stop their eye-service and refrain from pretence.
“Building flyovers in Abuja and making noise can never
quench the thirst and hunger in Nigerians. If you are hungry, can you ascend
and descend from a flyover?
“So, for Wike, and Tinubu’s aides to feign ignorance and
trivialize Amaechi’s statement, means, they are enemies of Nigeria and
Nigerians,” Eze posited.
Eze highlighted that even during the Nigeria/Biafra War,
Nigerians have never been subjected to the level of wickedness and poverty
currently pervading the nation under Tinubu due to misguided policies.
“Today, Nigerians are being slaughtered like goats by
criminal elements, gangs of bandits, terrorist organizations, religious
extremists and other terror groups while the President sits idly by and watches
unperturbed,” he lamented.
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