• Says President lacks capacity to rescue economy
• Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso unfit to defeat Tinubu, Jonathan group insists
• Obi is ‘beautiful bride’ of 2027, says Tanko
The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, yesterday, said that Nigerians should brace up for another round of economic hardship, insisting that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration lacks the capacity to return the nation’s economy to stability.
According to the President of the Forum, Akin Malaolu, the purchasing power of the naira is set to decline further, with inflation in foodstuffs and medicines expected to worsen in the near future.
This warning followed a recent assessment of Nigeria’s economy by the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the United States (U.S.) government.
The group said: “What was of interest to Okonjo-Iweala was the stability at the bottom end. The task before the government is to grow the GDP back to the original $575 billion baseline of 2023. That was the substance of what both discussants expressed publicly.”
The Forum, however, maintained that the Tinubu-led government has no capacity to achieve that recovery.
MEANWHILE, a pressure group, Bring Back Our Goodluck (BBOG), has declared that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in 2023, Peter Obi, and leader of Kwankwasiyya Movement, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, lacked the political dexterity to defeat Tinubu in the next general election.
National Coordinator of the BBOG, Dr Grema Kyari, who stated this at a media briefing yesterday in Kano, said that the political giants parading themselves in the coalition were interested in personal ambition rather than public interest.
The group, however, appealed to Atiku, el-Rufai, Obi and Kwankwaso to shelve their individual interest and support former President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2027 general election.
HOWEVER, the Interim National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Dr Yunusa Tanko, has described Obi as the “beautiful bride” of Nigerian politics ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In an exclusive interview, Tanko insisted that Obi remains the most trusted political figure in the country, particularly among the youths, because of his integrity, humility, and consistency.
According to him, Obi’s involvement in the coalition is not about political parties alone but a broad gathering of patriotic Nigerians determined to rescue the nation from poverty, insecurity, economic decline, and failing social systems.
