All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has instructed APC women to warn Nigerians calling for change of government to “shut up their mouths.”
When speaking to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ladies on Monday, Mr. Tinubu remarked, “If they say they want a change of government, just tell them we will like to be polite but shut up your mouth.”
Too many Nigerians were offended by the statement, and the video of it quickly became widely shared on social media.
The 71-year-old political strategist went on to remark, “Prosperity is here. Help is here. Security is here. Banditry has ended. Hopelessness is not in our dictionary.”
However according to Mr. Tinubu’s assertion, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC has faced economic challenges in Nigeria, including rising unemployment and poverty rates as well as a worsening of the country’s security situation as a result of bandits’ ongoing practice of kidnapping people for ransom.
In a speech he gave on October 1 in honor of Independence Day, The unemployment, lack of job opportunities, and poverty rates are still high, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, “despite constant efforts.”
The National Bureau of Statistics reports that during the Buhari administration, the jobless rate increased five times, from 6.4% in 2010 to 33.3% in the third quarter of 2020.
According to a Brookings Institution report from 2018, Nigeria replaced India as the country with the highest rate of poverty in the world. Meanwhile, data from the Debt Management Office shows that under President Buhari, the debt profile of the continent’s economic powerhouse reached N42 trillion in June.
President Muhammadu Buhari would leave over N50 trillion in debt to Nigeria when he steps down in May of next year due to the regime’s plan to borrow over N11 trillion to cover the 2023 budget deficit.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, previously said that when he becomes president of Nigeria, he will pick up where Buhari left off in terms of governance.
