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Ndu also expressed his doubts about Tinubu’s ability to manage the country’s problems, referencing the President’s refusal to address critical questions during the campaign.
“You remember that he removed the fuel subsidy even before he had a cabinet during his swearing-in that more than anything is the most eloquent, graphic explanation that this was a civilian dictatorship.” Ndu also criticized the government’s approach to illegal refineries, calling for a different strategy.
“If you put all the votes that Tinubu had in the election whether rigged or unrigged and add that one of Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Rabi’u Kwankwaso, they don’t come up to 20 per cent of the population of the people of Nigeria; and if you say as for those who voted it is still extremely negligible percentage.
My administration would encourage them, regulate their products, make sure that they don’t pollute the environment, help them to get the crude oil at the cheapest possible price and suffocate everywhere with properly refined oil,” he concluded.
“People say that President Bola Tinubu is just in power a little over a year that he should be giving opportunity to turn things around but when they say this, I get worried because we are supposed to be practising party democracy and his party has been in power since 2015.
He pointed out that if the votes of all the major candidates in the 2023 election—Tinubu, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, and Rabi’u Kwankwaso—were combined, they would not represent more than 20% of Nigeria’s population.
“The point I am trying to make is that it is dishonest to say that he just met the trouble and he is trying to fix it because he has always been part of the team led by Buhari since 2015,” he added.
“If I were in his position, the basics thing my administration would have done is to first of all encourage all those young boys and girls who are operating what our country prefers to call illegal refineries.
He criticized the notion that Tinubu “just came on board,” arguing that the President has always been involved in decision-making.
“So, I am not surprised that things are getting worse under him but I am not blaming him as a person, I am blaming all of us for agreeing to be so fooled not just by him but by the whole political system we are operating.
In other words, if we are trying to involve programmes for technological advancement, you must create a system that will outsource all our engineers, technologists whether at home or in the diaspora to contribute together, to collate and marshal out what should be our technological advancement blueprint likewise for health..
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