Bishop Seun Adeoye, a right-wing activist and priest based in Osun, has said that the majority of Nigerians experienced severe poverty and untold agony during President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s three months in office.
In a statement on Tuesday, he expressed his discontent with the nation’s current condition of affairs by saying this.
“Tinubu’s administration has been in place for three months as of today, August 29. But during just three months, businesses are failing, people are losing their jobs, hunger has taken over the country, and many people who seem to be alive are actually just walking corpses.
The truth be told, Mr. President, this “ground” is not “flowing. Nigerians have endured three months of tremendous agony. And it’s almost terrible now.
“You and your family are up there on a safe Aso Rock. Big men are everywhere around you. They are unable to experience pain in the same manner that we humans do. “Igboro o rerin Sir.” People aren’t at all happy, in other words. We can’t act as though melancholy permeates everything.
Is there anything this government is doing that has never been done before? None. While terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers are still having a field day in our own country, our “City Boy” nearly dragged us into a conflict with the Niger Republic. Recently, troops were massacred in Niger State, and some youth corpers were abducted in Zamfara.
“A new government should have even demonstrated some shows of strength, but killings in the Plateau, Niger, and Benue States, among other locations, were evidence of the ‘continuity’ of the past.
“Subsidy is gone,” yet the so-called palliatives are little more than political rhetoric. A N5 billion gift to a state with 5 million residents is only N1,000 per person. But while everyone is crying, food and transit costs have increased by enormous amounts.
“Mr. President, your 100,000 bags of rice per state are a complete joke. No family may have more than one “kongo or mudu.” I don’t deal in foreign exchange, but how has the dollar market changed since you took over?
We’ll soon, very soon, be inundated with propaganda and sponsored performance numbers. But the reality remains that this government has not only removed food from the tables of the people, but has also been successful in wiping smiles off their faces, he stated in his remarks.
Bishop Adeoye urged Nigerians to continue praying for the nation and its leaders.
