- By Halimah Olamide
A former Minister under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Solomon Dalong, has accused President Bola Tinubu of making sacrifices without showing examples.
He expressed doubts that Tinubu understands the degree of sufferings that Nigerians are going through under his administration.
In a tweet released on Monday, Dalung said Tinubu appeared to have mocked Nigerians with his further call for more sacrifices.
“I listened to @officialABAT calling on Nigerians again to sacrifice, love, and believe in the country. Could this be mockery of the suffering of the masses, or he genuinely believe in what he was saying? If President Tinubu is sincere about what he’s saying, then it’s confirmation that his government is under siege by the notorious cabal.
“The president’s body language betrayed him completely from the social reality. He is in his own world distinct from the hardships confronting Nigerians. From my analysis of the speech, Nigeria is on auto pilot dangerous navigating turbulence. Does President Tinubu knows that Nigerians are suffering?”he asked
Dalung accused Tinubu of what he called “reckless economic policies, wasteful expenditures, plundering of resources, insensitivity to plights of citizens, boastful and egoistic squandering of goodwill, adoption of corruption and nepotism”
He said these have been elevated to the level of state policies adding those “are the characteristics of this ignoble regime”
The former minister said the sacrifice Tinubu is demanding should begin with him and not with already allegedly impoverished Nigerians.