- PDP’s Showunmi criticizes President Tinubu’s policies as unprepared, mocks rice palliatives and cabinet choices, cites lack of competence and flip-flopping
- Showunmi lambasts Tinubu’s governance, criticizes policy changes, inexperienced ministers, and questions subsidy removal, urging national focus on key issues
Segun Showunmi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, has claimed that the policy changes that have characterized President Bola Tinubu’s administration since its inception demonstrate that he was not prepared and ready for governance.
During a press conference at the PDP National Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, the former spokesman for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar slammed the N5 billion and rice palliatives provided by the Federal Government through the state governor as the biggest joke.
Showunmi also chastised Tinubu for his cabinet selection, claiming that if Atiku had won the last election, he would have assembled a team of leaner and more equitable ministers.
He said:
To call the ministerial lineup “Dismal”, “Elephantine” or “Imprudent” is putting it mildly. It is clear that this government wishes to adopt the rake strategy to mask crass ill-preparedness, flip-flopping around serious issues and deep I-don’t-care attitude.
First, should the government be this large at a time when a lean cabinet seems more needful given the financial state of the country? Can a nation be in dire straits and those who created the financial and governance mess be shoving it in our face as though we have become a captured nation.
He claimed Tinubu has begun changing Ministers’ portfolios even before they begin their assignments, which he described as “indicative of trial and error and a lack of preparation.”
The PDP chieftain stated that the nation’s major issues are, in no particular order, accountability and justice, Naira stability, security, national cohesion, the economy (jobs), and national reorientation.
He claims that since taking office, this administration has stripped itself of any toga of competence, claiming that it has “now resulted in bragging and raking and policy summersault.”
The biggest joke is a palliative of rice and wholesale delivery of N5B in the direction of state governors which to my mind is like giving the fish to the cat with the expectation of delivery to the rat.
On the subsidy removal, he said;
They have not accepted that it’s either you deregulate and take your hands off the pricing of petroleum products or you interfere with it in a veiled return to the subsidy you claim are unable to sustain, confused lot.
First they scrapped the Niger Delta ministry then they hurriedly put it back, Someone should pinch me to wake up not just me but a captured people who must, barring the ruling of the court, endure a long road to freedom.