Nigerian journalist Dele Momodu has emphatically stated he had little hope Tinubu would make any change after several remarks by groups and individuals about his silence over the EndBadGovernance protest which commenced on Thursday.
Tinubu’s speech on Sunday further confirmed his fears as he reminded Nigerians how he (Tinubu) ruled Lagos with iron hand for 25 and he somehow questioned any possible change from him.
He further added that his so called advisers were not even helping matters. Momodu made this remark in a post he shared on his X handle on Sunday.
Momodu wrote, ” Fellow Nigerians, good morning. After the long awaited speech of president Bola Tinubu eventually came this morning, I’m sure most of you would be as stupefied as me. I must confess that I had little hope of Tinubu granting some concessions to the aggrieved Nigerians
“As a man who has held iron grip on Lagos State in the last 25 years, it would be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him ever since.
“Also, what did we expect his advisers to be telling him when most of them have been his most fanatical cronies from Lagos who have learnt never to challenge the Master.
“So it was mere wishful thinking on the part of incurable optimists like me to think he was going to have mercy on hapless and seemingly helpless Nigerians.”
Momodu however proceeded to reel out some actions a responsible leader would have taken if faced with such scenario.
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He stated that Tinubu should have said, “In view of the unprecedented suffering being experienced by Nigerians, we have decided to cut the cost of governance drastically. Some Ministries will be scrapped and some Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and all redundant personnel would be eased out.No official cars would be procured anytime soon.
“The number of aircrafts on our Presidential fleet will be reduced to maximum two. We shall place immediate embargo on subsequent purchases.
“Subsidy of petroleum products will be reviewed thoroughly to ascertain the genuine costs and true billing of the controversial payments. While we hope to achieve this in maximum of three months, we shall revert to old prices within this period in order to reduce the heavy burden on our people.
“We shall also escalate work on our existing refineries without which we shall be throwing away loads of resources. Nothing has stalled our refineries other than reckless corruption. This we are blocking immediately.
“Instead of tasking civil servants and politicians to handle students loans and vocational grants, we shall engage reputable accounting firms and banks to set up modalities for credits and activate the disbursements,” Momodu suggested.
Meanwhile Tinubu did not in any way think of inputting any of these in the supposed speech that Nigerians have been waiting for.
Tinubu’s speech has continued to receive serious backlash and critic over his insensitivity towards the cries of Nigerians.
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