Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, the Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has entered the discourse on the prevailing economic hardships in Nigeria.
He has proposed that Bola Tinubu should consider seeking assistance and initiating a “reset” to counteract the current trajectory.
The decision to float the naira and remove fuel subsidies has led to a surge in the cost of living, prompting protests in various regions of the nation.
Adediran acknowledges the gravity of the situation and believes there is no shame in seeking external assistance if the challenges prove to be overwhelming.
The call for Tinubu to “reset the buttons” reflects Adediran’s perspective on the necessity for decisive action to alleviate the economic strain facing Nigerians. As the country grapples with increasing inflation and social unrest, Adediran advocates for proactive measures to address the root causes of these issues.
“I think what we need to do is to press a reset button. Let Mr Tinubu go back to the drawing board and let him seek help. We don’t expect you to know everything we don’t expect you to do everything. You are there so that you can source materials to work with; materials that can assist you to work with.
”Let him let him look outward. Let him let him even look further inward, and surround himself with people who can assist him,” he said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
“Yes, you’ve had a lawyer team for over two decades that you’ve been together. It is fine. But if you have tried them for six, seven, eight months and they’re not giving the desired results and you cannot change them, you can still keep them and give them something else. We want you to succeed so that you don’t crush on all of us.”
Tinubu and state governments in the wake of the subsidy removal with the attendant hardship rolled out several measures including palliatives to cushion the effects.
But Jandor who claimed the removal of subsidy was done without a plan, faulted the distribution of palliatives.
“I am not an apostle of palliative. It won’t work. If you give me rice today, am I going to take the same rice to the pharmacy to buy drugs?” he asked.
“Palliatives won’t work. We can’t reduce ourselves to this. Let the Tinubu-led government do the needful by making sure that you increase the buying power of the people.”
