By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: Phrank Shaibu, Particular Assistant on Public Communication to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has launched a blistering assaults on President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day nationwide broadcast, dismissing his claims of progress as “empty rhetoric divorced from the day by day struggles of Nigerians.”
Shaibu in a press release issued moments after the President’s speech, warned that whereas Tinubu painted an image of resilience and reform, atypical Nigerians are battling starvation, insecurity and despair.
“The yam could also be plentiful, but when the pot is empty, the abdomen nonetheless rumbles. Right now, Nigeria’s pot is just not solely empty however cracked, and the individuals stay hungry”, he declared.
President Tinubu, in his broadcast, celebrated will increase in colleges, hospitals and reforms within the financial system. However the citizen’s rejoinder struck again with biting proverbs, insisting that school rooms stay naked, hospitals lack primary amenities and residents can not really feel the affect of claimed reforms.
“A person who builds many huts with out roofs has solely constructed shade for goats,” the assertion stated, noting that whereas the federal government boasts of infrastructure, pupils nonetheless be taught on naked flooring and sufferers should provide their very own candles and medicines earlier than receiving therapy.
Shaibu additionally painted a grim image of day by day life, noting that whereas meals costs have skyrocketed, transport prices have eroded wages and tens of millions of households now wrestle to afford a single meal.
“If these are the seeds of reforms, then the fruit remains to be bitter. When the roof is on hearth, it’s folly to declare the rain has quenched it”, Shaibu wrote.
Whereas President Tinubu praised the armed forces, Nigerians, the assertion argued, stay unsafe. Banditry, kidnapping and theft proceed unchecked.
The assertion cited the tragic killing of Somtochukwu Maduagwu, a younger Come up TV information anchor, in a theft assault simply this week as proof that “nobody – not even the voices that convey us the information – is protected in at present’s Nigeria.”
“A farmer can not boast the bush is cleared whereas weeds nonetheless choke his yam,” it added.
The previous vice chairman’s aide criticized authorities’s rhetoric on youth empowerment, accusing leaders of providing hole guarantees whereas younger graduates are compelled into menial jobs or roadside hustles to outlive.
“You can’t inform a toddler to dream large whilst you steal the mat he sleeps on,” the assertion charged.
At 65, Nigeria, in accordance with him, shouldn’t be celebrating statistics or rehearsing speeches however confronting the stark realities of poverty, insecurity and damaged techniques.
“A masquerade doesn’t clap for itself; it’s the crowd that cheers when the steps are candy. Nigerians should not clapping, as a result of the music they hear is starvation, insecurity and despair.
“Independence anniversaries are moments of sober reflection, not self-praise. Nigeria is 65 years previous. However our leaders nonetheless serve guarantees as if they have been meals. The yam is there, however the pot stays empty”, Shaibu declared.
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