Stop making performance claims at variance with reality, PDP tells Tinubu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Bola Tinubu’s two years in office as a “massive disappointment.”

In a statement assessing Tinubu’s second anniversary in office, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, cautioned the president against making performance claims that contradict reality.

He said Tinubu’s two years in office have been “nightmarish”, adding that Nigerians have “gone through hell” under the current administration.

Ologunagba urged Tinubu to urgently tackle insecurity, reverse all “economically suffocating” policies, and curb corruption and wasteful spending, which have negatively impacted citizens.

“As a Party, we restate our position that any government that cares for the wellbeing of the people and has an idea of macro-economic policy management would have reckoned that an abrupt increase in petrol price and devaluation of the Naira as executed by the Tinubu administration would cripple the productive sector, inflame high costs, crash millions of businesses, trigger mass job loss, escalate poverty, hunger, hardship, insecurity and hopelessness across the country,” the statement reads.

Ologunagba claimed that since May 2023 when Tinubu assumed office, 600,000 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists and bandits.

“In the last two years of worsened insecurity, comatose infrastructure, and economic uncertainties, multinationals have been leaving Nigeria in droves to neighbouring countries where governments are alive to their responsibilities,” he said.

“Unfortunately, instead of listening to our Party and other well-meaning Nigerians, the Tinubu administration resorted to multiple taxes, exploitative charges and reckless foreign borrowing accumulating to N182.91 trillion (with the latest request of a fresh $24.14 billion (N38.24tn) with no corresponding development project or programme that benefits the people.”

Ologunagba added that Nigerians are “seriously hurting” under Tinubu.

“Therefore, the president, in his second-year anniversary address, should avoid the usual APC’s resort to rhetoric and false performance claims that are at variance with the realities of life in Nigeria,” he said.

The PDP spokesperson asked Tinubu to “redeem the image” of his administration by reviewing policies that have caused widespread hardship.