The Democratic Front (TDF) has berated the National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, for his position on the increased fuel price in the aftermath of the ongoing Middle East conflict.
The group, while describing his position as thoughtless, wondered why any individual or group would criticise the President Bola Tinubu’s administration over a development that is not within its control.
TDF, in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Mallam Danjuma Muhammad and Secretary, Chief Wale Adedayo, said it was sad and regrettable that ADC’s morbid desperation for power has deprived the party of conscience and empathy towards the economic plight of Nigerians.
The group said it was also condemnable that the ADC National Publicity Secretary would dubiously claim that Nigerians are still waiting for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope promises, when in actual fact, the President’s agenda is already crystallising into tangible developments in different aspects of the average Nigerian’s public lives.
TDF also accused the ADC spokesman of hypocrisy for dismissing President Tinubu’s policies as inconsequential.
“We find it hypocritical and irresponsible that Bolaji Abdullahi will feign ignorance of the support and hope given to indigent students in Nigerian universities through the provision of education loans by NELFUND, and the monumental boost in revenue accruals to the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), which boosted the capacity of sub-national governments to implement social, economic, and infrastructural projects that will address the needs of Nigerians at the grassroots.
“But we also know that before he became the spokesman of the fledgling opposition party, Abdullahi wrote a piece for a think tank, the Agora Policy where he hailed NELFUND as a game changer,” it said.
It also provided more insight into what the administration is currently putting in place in the country.
“There is also the massive investments in agriculture that are consolidating food security, which has manifested in the reduction of headline inflation from 35% to 15%.
“We recall that Bolaji Abdullahi served as a Minister under the clueless administration of President Goodluck Jonathan during which Nigeria wasted its entire earnings from crude oil on indiscriminate importation and official corruption, to the detriment of local industries and economic productivity.
“Most appalling disservice to the nation by the administration Abdullahi served as Minister, was that none of its policies or programmes impacted Nigeria’s economy positively, as that of President Tinubu has done in nearly three years.
“It is significant at this point to inform the ADC image-maker that Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has completed the construction of over 15,000 housing units for low and medium-income earners across the country.
“Similarly, the Renewed Hope Agenda interventions in the health sector are novel and unprecedented. It has trained over 60,000 frontline workers, enrolled over 20 million citizens in the national health insurance scheme, and achieved a 60% increase in the nation’s annual health budget among a plethora of laudable achievements.
“We therefore call on Malam Abdullahi to desist from his mischievous campaign of calumny and mudslinging against the Tinubu administration because doing so will not be of any benefit to the ADC, which is already tainted by the poor public records of its leaders,” the group added.
