#EndBadGovernance Protest: Most Of Tinubu’s Advisers Are Fanatical Cronies Who Won’t Challenge Their Master –Dele Momodu
Momodu, while reacting to President Tinubu’s speech delivered on Sunday morning, said he had little hope of Tinubu granting some concessions to the aggrieved Nigerians, having known the President as a man who has held an iron grip on Lagos State in the last 25 years, and how it would be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him.
Former presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has slammed President Bola Tinubu and his advisers over the President’s failure to address the core demands of aggrieved Nigerians protesting against hunger and hardship under his administration.
Momodu, while reacting to President Tinubu’s speech delivered on Sunday morning, said he had little hope of Tinubu granting some concessions to the aggrieved Nigerians, having known the President as a man who has held an iron grip on Lagos State in the last 25 years, and how it would be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him.
Describing Tinubu’s advisers as the “most fanatical cronies from Lagos who have learnt never to challenge the master,” Momodu said he never expected them to tell the President anything different from what his speech contained.
Momodu, in his reaction posted on his X handle on Sunday, said, “As a man who has held an iron grip on Lagos State in the last 25 years, it would be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him ever since.
“Also, what did we expect his advisers to be telling him when most of them have been his most fanatical cronies from Lagos who have learnt never to challenge the Master.
“So it was mere wishful thinking on the part of incurable optimists like me to think he was going to have mercy on hapless and seemingly helpless Nigerians.”
Momodu said that what a “sensitive leader”, who craves the rightful position in posterity, would have done and said is, “In view of the unprecedented suffering being experienced by Nigerians, we have decided to cut the cost of governance drastically.
“Some Ministries will be scrapped and some Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and all redundant personnel would be eased out. No official cars would be procured anytime soon.
“The number of aircraft on our Presidential fleet will be reduced to a maximum of two. I offer sincere apologies that we went ahead to invest in luxury items at this bad times. We shall place an immediate embargo on subsequent purchases.
“Subsidy of petroleum products will be reviewed thoroughly to ascertain the genuine costs and true billing of the controversial payments.
“While we hope to achieve this in a maximum of three months, we shall revert to old prices within this period in order to reduce the heavy burden on our people.
“We shall also escalate work on our existing refineries without which we shall be throwing away loads of resources.
“Nothing has stalled our refineries other than reckless corruption. This we are blocking immediately.
“Instead of tasking civil servants and politicians to handle students loans and vocational grants, we shall engage reputable accounting firms and banks to set up modalities for credits and activate the disbursements.”
https://x.com/DeleMomodu/status/1820096252136350097
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