Elder statesman Bode George has expressed concern regarding President Bola Tinubu’s recent media chat, stating that it lacks empathy and does not acknowledge the struggles faced by many Nigerians.
He pointed to the tragic food queue stampedes last week, which resulted in the loss of 67 lives, as a reflection of the deep-rooted hunger and anger in the country.
Despite these alarming circumstances, George noted that the President continues to assert that his reforms are effective, while a significant number of Nigerians are experiencing increasing poverty and a decline in business viability.
“We are not feeling it, it is going worse by the day,” George said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday. “Hunger doesn’t believe in your talk, you gotta be real.”
The member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Tinubu’s media chat was not a good way to end the year.
“I’m surprised that there is no iota of somberness and humanity in the discussion. Why do you have a discussion in the first instance?” he quipped.
George, who insisted that the price of petrol be reduced, charged the Tinubu administration to offer immediate palliatives to hungry Nigerians whom he claimed have been impoverished by the policies of the current administration.
