The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has lambasted Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s governance style, labeling it as “outdated,” citing the extravagant delegation of 1,411 individuals sent to the Climate Change conference in Dubai.
He asserted that Tinubu’s administration seemed unwilling to break from past economic pitfalls, citing the nation’s precarious financial state.
Speaking at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Benin Lion Bar chapter award ceremony, Abure voiced concern over the country borrowing money for basic expenditures while allocating substantial resources to such conferences.
“It is obvious that the government of Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not willing to depart from the circumstances that have plunged the nation into an economic quagmire in the past.”
Questioning the rationale behind taking such a large delegation to the conference, he articulated, “How can a country that is borrowing money to pay workers’ wages, a country plagued by insecurity, battered by power collapse, where investors are exiting the country by the day fritter away such a humongous amount of resources on a jamboree?”
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He compared Nigeria’s approach with that of wealthier nations, saying, “A sober government should have known that borrowing money to attend conferences while rich nations attended the same event with less than twenty persons bothered on insensitivity and brazen impunity.”
Abure equally expressed confidence in the Labour Party’s ability to offer a better alternative, stating, “Nigerians have made their point and they are aware that the nation’s salvation lies with the Labour Party as we approach subsequent elections.”
He dedicated the NBA award, received from Justice Daniel Iyobosa Okungbowa, Chief Judge of Edo, to the youth and millions of Nigerians aspiring for a better future.