***Berate Tinubu over Poor Policies
By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse
Thousands of members of the ruling All Progresdives Congress (APC) have decamped to the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Jigawa state citing President Bola Tinubu’s poor policies as the cause of excruciating poverty that has befallen the country
Receiving the decampees in Dutse the State Capital, the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 election in the state, Malam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim accused the ruling APC government at the center and in the state for poverty of ideas that can engender good governance.
He said they lack the competence that can deliver vibrant policies and programs with positive impacts on the electorate after one year in office.
Malam Ringim pointed out that president Tinubu’s administration is unprepared and incapacitated to handle the current economic and security challenges.
According to him “The present devastating economic and security hardship has rendered every Nigerian incapacitated
According to him, despite all the woes, the federal is coming up with more devastating policies that are adding to the sufferings of the citizens and the common man in particular that voted them in to power”.
“Some of the policies include the recent hike of electricity tariffs, introduction of cyber security levy in addition to the removal of fuel subsidy which was the folcrum of the economic crises and increase in security challenges”.
The gubernatorial candidate also faulted the Jigawa state governor, Mal. Umar Namadi for allegedly neglecting his responsibilities but rather pursuing misplaced priorities for good one year in office.
He accused governor Umar Namadi for abandoning agricultural sector which accommodated over 90 percent of people that engaged in farming
“The Governor failed to fulfill his promises on agriculture, youth employment and education. He had promised to pay scholarship allowance, registration fees, for the state indigenes in tertiary intitutions.
According to him, he failed woefully on his promise to support irrigation farming for large scale Rice and Maize dry season farming etc”.
“As opposition party we have been silent and watching for almost one year now, yet nothing to show any where in terms of human or infrastructure development by either president Bola Tinubu or governor Umar Namadi.
“We have concluded all arrangements to challenge the ruling party both at national and state level on why this unnecessary hardship mist be addressed”, he said.
Malam Aminu explained that, the purpose for the gathering is to meet with the leadership of NNPP in the 27 local governments in Jigawa state to discuss and design how to save Nigerians from the hardship.
“Our party NNPP as an opposition party, we wouldn’t allow things to continue to derail like that, we must challenge and called the ruling party APC to do the right as Nigerians are entitled to survive without this untold hardship”, Malam Aminu stated.
He called on Nigerians to avoid repeating mistake of ‘collecting bribes to vote’ in the next general elections to save the future of the country.
He welcome the new party members to the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) and commend their courage, national patriotism and commitment to bringing positive changes under the NNPP.
Speaking on behalf of the decampees, one Malam Abubakar Lawan Kafi said “We took this decision in order to express our concern with the present hardship and APC led administration with their deception of palliatives distribution to people and number of bad policies and programs.
Malam Abubakar Lawan Kafi added said they are optimistic and confident that the ANPP will lead to positive changes if given an opportunity.
“We are all living witnesses of the good governance and quality leadership in Kano state under NNPP. We believe that is going to happen in the country if Engineer Rabi’u Musa Kwankoso become president of Nigeria and my humble self become the governor of Jigawa state”.