Economy: APC insensitive, more Nigerians committing suicide now – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that more Nigerians are committing suicide now due to the harsh economic situation in the country.
The party said this, in its response, to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), after it accused the opposition party of cashing in on the economic situation to stoke a crisis against the government.
The PDP accused the ruling APC of “threatening Nigerians for exercising their democratic and Constitutional right to protest in the face of misrule, agonizing poverty, hunger, killings and other harrowing experiences under the Tinubu administration.”
It also said the incumbent government’s policies were responsible for the “terrifying food scarcity and catastrophic high cost of living” in the country.
It added: “Any government that has an idea of macro-economic policy management ought to have recognized that the suffocating policies of abrupt increase in the pump price of petroleum products, high cost of electricity and arbitrary floating of the Naira as executed by the Tinubu administration without due considerations, would have excruciating consequences to the economy as being witnessed today.”
It also cited the foreign exchange crisis, insecurity, and the decision of some companies to shut down their operations as some of the fallouts of the President Bola Tinubu-led government.
“Today, Nigerians are resorting to suicide while thousands of our promising youths are leaving the country in droves.
“Nigerians have witnessed massive looting of over N20 trillion by APC leaders
It is sad that in all of these, President Tinubu is missing in action as he holidays in France at the expense of the Nigerian treasury.
“It is sad that in all of these, President Tinubu is missing in action as he holidays in France at the expense of the Nigerian treasury.
“The APC must understand and come to terms with the fact that there is frustration in the land because of the suffocating economic and social policies; laidback attitude to security and massive corruption in the Tinubu administrat
ion,” the PDP said.
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