…says he has no plans to revive the economy
By Udesinanna Stephen
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has knocked out President Bola Tinubu’s National address saying that they are “fake” promises with no “plans to stimulate domestic crude refining as an answer to the crippling energy and manufacturing deficits in the country.”
The PDP said this in a statement published on its Twitter handle OfficialPDPNigeria, after a press conference yesterday.
PDP said, “The PDP is appalled that the address is another litany of false promises hurriedly put together by his handlers in the desperate bid to hoodwink and beguile Nigerians, blackmail Labour Fronts and divert public attention from the life-discounting experiences imposed by the APC government.
“It is instructive to observe from the speech, that the APC has no marshal plan to stimulate domestic crude refining as an answer to the crippling energy and manufacturing deficits in the country, instead the APC has committed our nation to the mercies of foreign interests and market forces.
According to the statement, Tinubu new promises of N75 billion for jobs in 2024; N125 billion for SMEs; N50,000 each to 1,300 nano business and cultivation of 750,000 hectares of land for food, all without policy and implementation plan, which give room for corruption and siphoning of public funds.
Also, the opposition said, “The submission in the speech that there are no other ways but for Nigerians to suffer hardship and high costs further exposes APCs scandalous cluelessness, lack of capacity and deficiency of innovative ideas to effectively steady and manage a nation like Nigeria.”