Chuks Okocha in Abuja
The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO) has cautioned that Nigeria is teetering on the brink of complete collapse underneath the President Bola Tinubu-led ‘incompetent, insensitive and wasteful All Progressives Congress (APC) administration’.
The Director of Strategic Communications of the Makinde/Daura Campaign, Richard Ihediwa, stated that: ‘’With an estimated 140 million Nigerians (63 % of the inhabitants) residing in abject poverty, in line with the World Bank’s April 2026 Nigeria Development Update, the nation faces a rising danger of a humanitarian disaster with devastating penalties for its residents.
‘This grim picture is compounded by the APC administration’s personal report that roughly 70 % of Nigerian kids underneath the age of 10 can’t learn or perceive a easy sentence; an alarming revelation underscoring the large injury the Tinubu administration has wrought on Nigeria and its subsequent technology.”
Ihediuwa stated that this got here amid crushing poverty that has pushed tens of millions of Nigerian households into distress, despair and hopelessness, at the same time as APC authorities officers proceed to flaunt their wealth, take pleasure in luxurious and a lavish life-style.
According to the marketing campaign organisation, ‘’This shameful show of insensitivity and betrayal of public belief foregrounds a management blinded by energy, consumed by extravagance, and indifferent from the struggling plenty.’’
The Makinde/Daura marketing campaign group stated that they discover it troubling that Nigeria is now rated alongside Afghanistan on the world’s poverty index regardless of the large assets at the disposal of the ‘Tinubu’s rudderless and wasteful administration’.
‘’The penalties are clear as Nigeria steadily slides to a failed state in consequence of deepening financial disaster, weakening public establishments, worsening insecurity and declining public confidence, all fuelling social tensions and public frustration over the previous three years.
‘’Of course, a authorities that can’t successfully implement its budgets, that flouts constitutional provisions and depends on arbitrary measures, can’t encourage the confidence wanted to construct a secure, affluent nation.
‘’Today, underneath the APC’s visionless administration, Nigeria’s infrastructure deficit has hit an estimated $2.3 trillion, with consultants stating that the hole would require roughly $100 billion yearly over the subsequent 30 years to repair.
‘’Unfortunately, there’s neither disciplined fiscal administration, clear procurement, strategic funding, nor an efficient deployment of public assets. The insatiable urge for food for overseas loans, piling a staggering ₦166.7 trillion in public debt and mortgaging the future of over 240 million Nigerians, is deeply alarming,’’ he stated.
The Makinde/Daura marketing campaign group stated that President Tinubu is burying Nigeria by instalments, saddling the nation with a debt burden her future technology gained’t have the ability to pay.
Accordingly, Ihediuwa stated that the loans have but to translate into significant enhancements in the lives of Nigerians, particularly towards the backdrop of allegations that they’re being diverted to non-public pockets of some corrupt public officers, making the matter unpardonable.
According to the group, ‘’The incontrovertible fact that President Tinubu remains to be looking for a contemporary $1.5billion credit score from the World Bank even when his administration doesn’t have any clear-cut technique to pay again the over N166.7 trillion debt collected underneath his watch, additional confirms that the president is gathering a funeral pyre for Nigeria. Hence, permitting President Tinubu one other 4 years would quantity to saying ‘yes to the whip under the midday sun ’, to cite Birago Diop in ‘Africa My Africa ’, whereas Nigerians proceed to bear the crushing weight of financial hardship and humiliation.
“It would additional mortgage the nation’s future and expose its financial sovereignty to rising exterior pressures with this administration’s insatiable urge for food for overseas loans. With mounting public debt, the danger that borrowing may outstrip the nation’s compensation capability raises critical considerations about sustainability and the doable sovereign default, which is able to convey devastating penalties for Nigerians.
‘’Overall, it’s clear that President Tinubu lacks the capability, imaginative and prescient, stamina, and presence of thoughts to successfully govern Nigeria, components answerable for his steady absence from the theatre of governance, leaving the nation adrift at the mercy of an unelected cabal.
With about 63 % of the Nigerian inhabitants, particularly the youth demography at the moment in agony, despair, and restiveness, the January 16, 2027, presidential election represents a important alternative for Nigerians to find out the nation’s political path and future.
‘’Nigeria wants a complete RESET now! It wants a brand new path underneath a management that’s current, competent, and dedicated to inserting the pursuits and well-being of residents above private consolation and ego. These are the qualities Seyi Makinde represents.
