Lamido slams Tinubu’s London vacation amid challenges

Nigerians are tired, will sack Tinubu in 2027, says Kwankwaso
Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has expressed strong disapproval of President Bola Tinubu’s decision to take a two-week vacation outside Nigeria amid the country’s economic and security crises.

Similarly, the Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, said with the current situation of things in the country, Nigerians would push for change in 2027.

In a Facebook post entitled ‘Deaf, Dumb, Confounded’, Lamido questioned the President’s choice to leave the country at a time when citizens were facing significant hardships.

He criticised Tinubu for planning to reflect on his administration’s economic reforms from Europe, stating that such a move showed a lack of empathy for the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.

“Has he (Tinubu) the human empathy, compassion, love, care and concern to ponder and reflect in the comfort zone of Europe on Nigerians’ gory situations?” Lamido wrote.

He accused the administration of consciously unleashing pain and agony on the people.

Lamido referenced the biblical story of Pharaoh and Moses, suggesting a disconnect between leadership and the struggles of the masses.

This came after the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced that Tinubu would be travelling to the United Kingdom for a two-week vacation as part of his yearly leave.

Onanuga stated that the vacation would serve as a “working retreat” for the President to reflect on his administration’s economic reforms.

KWANKWASO said this while receiving a large number of the All Progressives Congress (APC) members, who defected to the NNPP in Kano State.

The former Kano governor received the former APC members from Dala, Kiru and Gwale local councils at his Miller Road residence in Kano.

He said, “Nigerians, more specifically Northerners, have suffered enough and no amount of pressure or intimidation will change their minds.

“Nigerians should rethink the present dispensation. It has now become clear that the APC-led government is clearly against the poor masses and will never change. It is now clear that regardless of their beliefs and plans to use the security agents and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the forthcoming elections, it will not be possible, as Nigerians are tired and will surely struggle for change.”

Describing the occasion as historic, he stated that the number of those joining the NNPP from the wards of Dala, Kiru, Gwale and Dawakintofa showed that the APC structure “has completely crumbled” in the affected places.

He said the APC, which was created to salvage the hardship of the poor masses, had turned against them, with insecurity and poverty eating deep into the fabric of Nigeria.