Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s first year in power has been criticized by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), which characterises it as a time of “deception and hopelessness.”
During an interview on ChannelsTV on Sunday night, Professor Usman Yusuf, a former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and member of the NEF, shared these opinions.
After Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29, 2023, Yusuf accused his administration of making Nigerians feel more pessimistic. He emphasised the hardships faced by people who are now reliant on palliative care, which stands in sharp contrast to Tinubu’s campaign pledge of “Renewed Hope.”
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“People have lost hope. It pains me to see our people lining up to collect cups of palliatives. Renewed Hope has turned into hopelessness. People have lost hope,” Yusuf stated.
Significant reforms have been carried out by Tinubu, such as the unification of foreign exchange windows and the elimination of the petrol subsidy. However, a lot of people have blamed these measures for the nation’s rising inflation and rising cost of living, which has sparked protests and strong condemnation.
Yusuf went on to criticise Tinubu’s economic management staff, calling them “tax collectors” rather than capable economists. He contended that their strategy has pushed millions of people into poverty and resulted in many kids being expelled from school because their parents cannot afford the tuition.
“The last one year has been a year of nothing but deception, destitution and hopelessness,” Yusuf stressed, adding that: “From next week, they will start telling us their propaganda.”
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Speaking further, the NEF member articulated, “What have they done to benefit the ordinary people? In a span of one year, they have brought millions of people back into multidimensional poverty, they have pushed millions more children out of school because their parents cannot pay their school fees.”
The Ex-NHIS secretary also whipped the economic management Team of the President, describing the members as “tax collectors” rather than “economists”.
“The economic team, to me, looks more like tax collectors than economists. Taxation does not grow economy; only production does,” he added.
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