Elder statesman, Bode George says President Bola Tinubu’s Monday media chat lacks empathy and humanity, stressing that the President, through his statements, is unfeeling to the plight of suffering Nigerians.
Drawing inferences from three food queue stampedes which claimed 67 lives in Nigeria last week, George, during a television programme on Tuesday, said: “there is hunger and anger in the land” yet the President continues to insist that his reforms are working while many Nigerians are becoming poorer by the day and businesses collapsing. We are not feeling it, it is going worse by the day,”
According to him, “The member of the Board of Trustees of the People’s Democratic Party said Tinubu’s media chat was not a good way to end the year”. “I’m surprised that there is no iota of somberness and humanity in the discussion. Why do you have a discussion in the first instance?” he quipped.
George, who insisted that the price of petrol be reduced, charged the Tinubu administration to offer immediate palliatives to hungry Nigerians whom he claimed have been impoverished by the policies of the current administration.
There have been pressure for Tinubu to reconsider his policies but during a media chat on Monday, Tinubu insisted that he has no regrets about removing petrol subsidy in May 2023, maintaining that Nigeria cannot continue to be Father Christmas to neighbouring countries.
