‘Nigerians Poorer, Suffering Under Tinubu’s Clueless Economic Policies’- CUPP

-Says Celebration Of One-year Anniversary Insulting

The Coalition of United Political Parties ( CUPP) has slammed President Bola Tinubu, saying his administration over the past one year has worsened the economic conditions of Nigerians.

The group on Monday in Abuja during its World Press conference accused the President of using unfriendly policies to “ weaponize poverty in the country, while also ruining the hopes of the poor masses.

CUPP’s Spokesperson, Mark Adebayo who read out the group’s speech, noted that the act of rolling out drums to celebrate the President’s one year anniversary was insulting to the sensibilities of suffering Nigerians.

CUPP stated that Nigerians were economically better off in the past regime than now, with more hopes of surviving.

CUPP’s speech in part reads, “ for a government that came into power with the attractive mantra of “Hope Renewed”, there is hardly any sector of governance that anyone can point at with any glimmer of hope on the horizon. What we have had in the last one year is hope ruined and poverty weaponized as if to punish Nigerians for the electoral choice they made during last year’s. election.

“Many Nigerians, including some of us in the opposition, had assumed that President Bola Tinubu would, at least, perform a little better than the disastrous administration of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari, in the areas of economy, security, education, health, infrastructure and so forth. Alas! Judging by the last one year of another APC government, we can safely conclude that the country’s situation has not only worsened significantly but even worsening by the day.

“Nigeria is a captured nation by internal and external retrogressive forces of insatiable and rapacious appetite for the mortgaging of Nigeria’s commonwealth in the service of personal aggrandizement”.

“For the first time in the history of this country, Nigeria was unfortunate to have a president whose first minute in office was marked by unprecedented infliction of unmitigated suffering on the people. It was like an army of occupation has come to town. Even before the new president left the Eagle Square where he was inaugurated, Nigerians had been hit with what can be described as the most cruel economic assault that turned our lives upside-down, made businesses collapse, took food off millions of tables, sent children out of schools in their millions, increased insecurity exponentially, battered lives and scattered marriages irretrievably because the pump prices of fuel were increased by about 600% and the country’s inflation digits tripled instantaneously.

“All of these within the first 60 seconds of Tinubu’s presidency and Nigerians are yet to recover from that tragedy till date. His welcome package to Nigerians was that of mass suffering, mass hunger, mass poverty and a government that is absolutely insensitive to the plights of Nigerians”.