President’s media chat lacks empathy, humanity, says Bode George
27 December 2024 |
6:26 am
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has said President Bola Tinubu’s Monday media chat lacked empathy and humanity.
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has said President Bola Tinubu’s Monday media chat lacked empathy and humanity.
He described the President’s posture as unfeeling to the plight of suffering Nigerians.
Drawing inferences from three food queue stampedes that claimed 67 lives last week, George submitted: “There is hunger and anger in the land, yet the President continues to insist that his reforms are working, while many Nigerians are becoming poorer by the day, and businesses collapsing.
“We are not feeling it, it is getting worse by the day. Hunger doesn’t believe in your talk, you’ve got to be real.”
The member of the PDP Board of Trustees said Tinubu’s media chat was not a good way to end the year.
He added: “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?”
George, who insisted that the price of petrol should 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.
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