The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has warned that the economic situation of Nigeria is getting to a point that could trigger a nationwide agitation that might be worse than the October 2020 EndSARS .
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba on Sunday, March 20, said the comment by the Presidency that ‘heavens will not fall’ because of fuel scarcity was like daring Nigerians to do their worse.
While berating President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly failing to take action over the lingering fuel crisis in the country, it cautioned government that there is a limit to what the citizens can bear under an administration that is ‘arrogant and insensitive to their plights’.
“Is it not an unpardonable dereliction of duty that while the nation is in turmoil and agonising under a collapsed national grid, protracted fuel crisis, distressed aviation sector, plummeting currency, crippled production and commercial activities, President Buhari remains aloof and ‘absent’ as always?
“The failure by President Buhari, who also doubles as the minister of Petroleum Resources to take immediate action, other than the snobbish stance by his Presidency that ‘heavens will not fall’ because of fuel scarcity amounts to daring Nigerians to do their worse.
“It is often said when a government abdicates its responsibility to the citizens at whose pleasure it should serve, then that government is complicit in the suffering of its people and a beneficiary of their woes.
“Sadly today, thousands of small and medium scale enterprises; the drivers of the economy are folding up daily, industries are relocating to neighbouring countries, universities are on strike, the aviation sector is on the brink of collapse, our railway is tottering to a halt due to lack of diesel, police are threatening to go on strike, insecurity is on the rise due to the collapse of the informal economic sector, yet Mr. President had time to holiday in England.”
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