Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour: Nigerians Want Government To Take Action And Give Them Hope, Not Another Empty Basket Of Promises

Former governorship campaigner of the Labour Party successful Lagos State successful the 2023 wide elections, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has called connected the Nigerian authorities to instrumentality beardown enactment connected its policies and promises to Nigerians, saying that what Nigerians request astatine this constituent is hope, and not “just different bare handbasket of promises.”

Rhodes-Vivour said this successful an interrogation with ARISE NEWS connected Sunday wherever helium discussed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s code to the federation which was broadcasted connected Sunday morning, arsenic helium said that the president should not person waited truthful agelong into the protests against atrocious governance successful Nigeria to person reached the constituent wherever lives and properties had been mislaid earlier helium addressed Nigerians.

He said, “They should person taken a leafage retired of what they saw hap successful Kenya and not hold for this to get this bad, but conscionable look and spot that, you know, it’s clip to springiness symbolic and meaningful gestures to Nigerians to cognize that our person is with us, that is what empathy is, it’s not conscionable coming and saying I feel, I feel. You feel, present you person to act. What is the enactment that you are taking? How are Nigerians going to consciousness that their commonwealth is being managed properly? What are the timelines and fig of jobs that volition beryllium created, and this is what volition springiness Nigerians hope, not conscionable different bare handbasket of promises.”

Airing his views connected what helium thought astir Tinubu’s speech, Rhodes-Vivour said, “I consciousness that the President had astir a month’s announcement earlier this protestation happened, and this gave them capable ample clip to program strategy and responses to what Nigerians person been calling retired for, which is hunger, pervasive hunger successful the land, immense unemployment, reduced income, and radical conscionable not being capable to cope. So, the president did not instrumentality vantage of that announcement that was given, and has present fixed his code astir 4 days into this wherever lives person been lost, properties person been damaged.

“And adjacent successful the code you find that they are besides victims of their ain propaganda. You speech astir expanding the magnitude of lipid accumulation to 1.6 cardinal barrels, erstwhile it’s hardly astir 1.2 billion. We speech astir radical investing successful the assemblage erstwhile we cognize for a information that astir companies are pulling retired and investing successful different African countries. We speech astir the CNG production, which sounds bully connected paper, but we’ve not seen the imaginable fuelling of these trucks and however it’s going to really beryllium implemented decently crossed the country.

“And 1 would person hoped that helium would person focused that benignant of exertion oregon thought based connected moving nutrient from the agrarian communities to municipality centres, securing the farmlands and securing farmers to besides summation nutrient production- that was different accidental that was missed successful my opinion.

“But much than anything, I saw a precise flaccid effort astatine empathy, due to the fact that empathy is besides action, enactment that volition amusement a wide basal outgo cutting strategy successful governance. Because 1 of the things that is paining Nigerians is they’re successful the midst of truthful overmuch poverty, midst of truthful overmuch hunger, and they’re speechmaking things astir a caller backstage pitchy that is bought, twenty-one cardinal being budgeted for 1 antheral and his household successful a house, extravagant expenses of our communal wealth, that shows that this authorities is not truly connected, understands the travails that Nigerians are going through.”

Rhodes-Vivour went connected to say, “Broadly, I consciousness that this code has not addressed the issues that the radical person raised, it does thing for the marketplace pistillate that is talking astir the hunger that she’s persevering and however overmuch the terms of garri is. He spoke astir expanding the minimum wage arsenic an achievement, but that minimum wage tin hardly bargain a container of rice. Minimum wage nether Goodluck Jonathan could bargain a container of rice. So, it’s not conscionable capable to accidental we person immense revenues, what is the worth of that revenue? What is the purchasing powerfulness of having that magnitude of gross connected the coon man? And these things person not been addressed. So, I conjecture we’ll spot successful the coming days however that’s going to impact the radical protesting.”

He past gave recognition to the President for condemning the taste bigotry successful the state arsenic helium said, “What helium did though that was affirmative to an extent, was possibly highlighting- possibly due to the fact that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar highlighted this fact- that taste baiting and bigotry has nary spot successful the modern time Nigeria. He highlighted it, but it’s besides precise flaccid, due to the fact that this is simply a authorities that has its SAs and SSAs retweeting this Lagospedia leafage regularly.

“If you’re connected twitter, astir radical subordinate the Lagospedia leafage arsenic a subdivision oregon an limb of APC, due to the fact that SAs and SSAs are perpetually retweeting from it. You person a media aide, Bayo Onanuga, that has travel retired to accidental precise bigoted statements consistently, and there’s nary mode that your main would not beryllium good with these things, and these things are done consistently. So, present that it has been brought up, I expect to spot radical being picked up, radical being questioned for this benignant of instigation and trying to rip our societal cloth apart. And this is not conscionable connected the APC’s side, connected the different broadside wherever you person people, conscionable everybody, nary substance what people you are from, arsenic agelong arsenic you are instigating radical against each other, you should beryllium brought successful for questioning, due to the fact that determination are melodramatic effects that these things have.”

Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi

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