Your New Year’s Day Speech Filled With Deceit, Hypocrisy – Labour Party Fires Tinubu

The Labour Party (LP) has stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast to Nigerians on New Year’s Day was full of deceit and lacked empathy.

In a statement on Monday in response to Tinubu’s broadcast, the National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, described the speech as “appalling and hollow.”

He dismissed claims made by Tinubu that decisions taken by his administration were in Nigeria’s best interest, adding that there was no word about the alleged massive looting of the nation’s resources by appointees and party leaders.

Ifoh said, “If anything, the speech conveyed to Nigerians the high level of hypocrisy, deceit, and lack of empathy which has become the guiding principle of the All Progressives Congress administration which Tinubu leads.

“It is depressing to note that the President and his handlers didn’t deem it fit to include a word of comfort for the families of over 200 persons killed by terrorists during the Christmas Eve massacre in Plateau State.

“The President’s helplessness in the face of his glaring failure to address the critical issues of insecurity, decayed infrastructure, the collapse of the manufacturing and productive sectors, inflation, and the Naira to Dollar exchange rate which is spiralling out of control is written all over the speech.

“There was no word about the alleged massive looting of the nation’s resources by appointees and party leaders in various sectors.

“Most disturbing for us is the President’s false claim that “everything I have done in office, every decision I have taken and every trip I have undertaken outside the shores of our land, since I assumed office on 29 May 2023, have been done in the best interest of our country”, what a despicable form of deceit.

“How does his ill-advised decision on fuel
Subsidy removal without a plan to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians translates into an action taken in the national interest.

“Of what benefit were the millions of the nation’s dwindling foreign reserves frittered away under the guise of attending the climate change summit in Dubai to Nigerians?

“How do we begin to repair the damage being done to our democratic institutions such as the Judiciary, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, among others, by the APC Administration?

“While we call for prayers for our nation in this critical point of our history, we will continue to call on the National Assembly to look beyond party lines and ensure that the spirit and the letter of our constitution is upheld at all times.”