Elder statesman Bode George says President Bola Tinubu’s Monday media chat lacked empathy and humanity, He said that the President, through his statements, was insensitive to the plight of suffering Nigerians.
Drawing inferences from three food queue stampedes that claimed 67 lives in Nigeria last week, George said “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 going worse by the day,” George said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday. “Hunger doesn’t believe in your talk, you gotta be real.”
The member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Tinubu’s media chat was not a good way to end the year. “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?” he quipped.
George, who insisted that the price of petrol 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.
