NLC has voiced their displeasure over the President Bola Tinubu’s national broadcast speech on Monday, saying “his speech was not the silver black Nigerians expected.”
The NLC said in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and made available to journalists in Abuja that it is devoted to its fights because the President has failed to address current issues that worsen misery and hardship in the country.
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“Our review of today’s broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu leaves us with the impression that President Tinubu’s promises and assurances are not the silver bullet that he claims.”
The speech looks to be out of touch with reality and out of step with the hardship and suffering that most Nigerians are currently experiencing.
“First, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inaugural remark expressed a commitment to a better and more productive economy.
We expected the following line of comment to be about how the current government intends to resurrect our public refineries, which have been dormant for many years and are the biggest source of suffering in the entire subsidy tale.
Unfortunately, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s entire speech was deafening the silence on the matter of national refinery restoration.
“Second, consistent with our impression of Mr. President’s promises and offerings being misaligned with the reality experienced by millions, of workers and average Nigerians, was the faiture of President Tinubu to unmask those behind the looting of Nigeria’s commonwealth under the guise of petrol subsidy.
It is unacceptable for the President and Commander-in-Chief to lament, like ordinary Nigerians, about a group referred to in Mr. President’s speech as the “elites of the elites” who have stolen so much from Nigeria that they have become so powerful as to pose a threat to democratic governance.
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Nigerians expected Mr. President to make a serious commitment to bringing these economic saboteurs to justice and recovering what they had stolen.
“Additionally, the Federal Government has failed to do the same for public employees in its employ.” This is a clear example of a company failing miserably to fulfil the criteria it has set for others to meet.
