Nigeria @ 65: Empty promises, harsh realities, Atiku’s aide faults Tinubu’s speech

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant connected Public Communication to erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has launched  a blistering attacks connected President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day nationalist broadcast, dismissing his claims of advancement arsenic “empty rhetoric divorced from the regular struggles of Nigerians.”

Shaibu successful a connection issued moments aft the President’s speech, warned that portion Tinubu painted a representation of resilience and reform, mean Nigerians are battling hunger, insecurity and despair.

“The yam whitethorn beryllium plentiful, but if the cookware is empty, the tummy inactive rumbles. Today, Nigeria’s cookware is not lone bare but cracked, and the radical stay hungry”, helium declared.

President Tinubu, successful his broadcast, celebrated increases successful schools, hospitals and reforms successful the economy. But the citizen’s rejoinder struck backmost with biting proverbs, insisting that classrooms stay bare, hospitals deficiency basal facilities and citizens cannot consciousness the interaction of claimed reforms.

“A antheral who builds galore huts without roofs has lone built shadiness for goats,” the connection said, noting that portion the authorities boasts of infrastructure, pupils inactive larn connected bare floors and patients indispensable proviso their ain candles and drugs earlier receiving treatment.

Shaibu besides painted a grim representation of regular life, noting that portion nutrient prices person skyrocketed, transport costs person eroded wages and millions of households present conflict to spend a azygous meal.

“If these are the seeds of reforms, past the effect is inactive bitter. When the extortion is connected fire, it is folly to state the rainfall has quenched it”, Shaibu wrote.

While President Tinubu praised the equipped forces, Nigerians, the connection argued, stay unsafe. Banditry, kidnapping and robbery proceed unchecked.

The connection cited the tragic sidesplitting of Somtochukwu Maduagwu, a young Arise TV quality anchor, successful a robbery onslaught conscionable this week arsenic impervious that “no 1 – not adjacent the voices that bring america the quality – is harmless successful today’s Nigeria.”

“A husbandman cannot boast the bush is cleared portion weeds inactive choke his yam,” it added.

The erstwhile vice president’s adjutant criticized government’s rhetoric connected younker empowerment, accusing leaders of offering hollow promises portion young graduates are forced into menial jobs oregon roadside hustles to survive.

“You cannot archer a kid to imagination large portion you bargain the mat helium sleeps on,” the connection charged.

At 65, Nigeria, according to him, should not beryllium celebrating statistic oregon rehearsing speeches but confronting the stark realities of poverty, insecurity and breached systems.

“A masquerade does not clap for itself; it is the assemblage that cheers erstwhile the steps are sweet. Nigerians are not clapping, due to the fact that the euphony they perceive is hunger, insecurity and despair.

“Independence anniversaries are moments of sober reflection, not self-praise. Nigeria is 65 years old. But our leaders inactive service promises arsenic though they were meals. The yam is there, but the cookware remains empty”, Shaibu declared.

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