PDP Accuses APC’s Over Insensitivity of Nationwide Hardship

*Calls For Policy Reviews

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the federal government under the All Progressives Congress (APC) to review its anti-people policies that has triggered the nationwide protest.

This was contained in a statement by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Friday.

PDP said the nationwide protest by Nigerians would not have come if the APC government had dropped its arrogance and insensitivity, and shown sincere commitment to the citizens by halting the policies that occasioned the protest.

The statement read,  “President Tinubu should listen to the heartbeat of Nigerians. There is hunger and destitution in the land. The reaction of a hungry people is better imagined! Mr. President, please, act now”.

“Sadly, these counsels did not receive the expected consideration, resulting in the current situation.

“It is alarming that instead of engaging Nigerians and addressing their concerns, the APC allegedly recruited hoodlums to instigate violence so as to justify a clampdown and killing of innocent Nigerians.

“The APC is completely insensitive to the fact that more than 120 million Nigerians have become destitute and can no longer afford their daily meals and other basic necessities of life, as poverty rate soars to over 40 per cent because of the policies of the APC administration.

“As stated by the PDP on several occasions, any people-oriented government ought to have been wary of the suffocating effect of the hasty and ill-implemented twin policies of abrupt increase in the price of petroleum products and arbitrary floating of the Naira without due cushioning measures to ensure the wellbeing of the people.”

PDP said, “The APC has plunged Nigeria into a humanitarian crisis, where millions of citizens are literarily starving and dying of hunger. Sadly, today, a bag of rice sells for over N85,000; a bag of beans goes for N150,000; a measure of garri now sells for N1,500, while a measure of cooking oil, which sold for N1,200, now sells for N12,000, with prices of all food items increasing daily.

“More provocative is that while Nigerians are crying for food, the APC officials in government are busy looting the national treasury to fund their luxury appetite, including acquisition of luxury jets, expensive holidays abroad, renovation of official residential mansions, and other profligacies, without regard to the feeling and the pains of majority of Nigerians.

“Also disturbing is the scandalous revelation that the APC administration is secretly paying a whopping N5.4 trillion as fuel subsidy for 2024 even after the president announced an end to fuel subsidy.

“What Nigerians expect at this time is for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to personally address the nation, announce major policy reviews, and order investigation into the alleged looting of subsidy and palliative funds.