Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has described Bola Tinubu’s speech as a pack of empty words.
Amid disparaging comments about the silence of Tinubu over the ongoing EndBadGovernance protest which commenced on Thursday, Tinubu in a live broadcast on Sunday addressed Nigerians.
Meanwhile, his speech didn’t go down well with Effiong as he took to his twitter handle to lambast Tinubu over his hypocritical speech.
He wrote, “President Tinubu’s speech is just a pack of empty words and a time wasting load of irrelevancies.
“It is a confirmation of my long held view, that we are dealing with a fatalistic political class that is intentionally deaf and willfully blind to the sufferings and yearnings of Nigerians.
“This President is disconnected from the reality of the everyday Nigerian. He’s living in an imaginary Nigeria that only exist in his head. The speech couldn’t have been more meaningless and aimless.
“Those who wrote it, and Mr. Tinubu who read it out, have succeeded in justifying the reasons for the nationwide protest. It is appalling that despite what we have witnessed across the country in the last three days, the President did not deem it necessary to speak to the specific demands of the protesters.”
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Effiong continued, “Tinubu made no mention of electoral reform, no reversal of his horrible and devastating economic policies, he made no attempt to cut down the over bloated size of his government. Tinubu made no concessions.
“Great leaders make sacrifices for their country, but terrible leaders like Tinubu only know how to sacrifice the country for their interest. It is not his voice that people wanted to hear, people wanted him to speak directly to their demands. His call for dialogue is in bad faith.
“He did not address the mindless killing of protesters by security agencies in any meaningful way. He also did not set up any credible machinery for a purposeful dialogue.
” Tinubu is preoccupied with the ridiculous idea that the protest is being sponsored by his political adversaries. This provocative arrogance by Nigerian politicians will be ended one day by Nigerians, one way or the other, he slammed.
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