Tinubu
The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2025 New Year Day address has further confirmed the disconnection of the present administration from the people, saying there is no hope in sight.
The party also said the speech further validated the fact that the Tinubu-led APC administration is “disconnected and unconcerned with the hardship Nigerians are going through as a result of the ill-implemented policies and gross mismanagement of resources under his watch.” Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party, in a statement reacting to the speech, said “Nigerians were appalled that despite the prodding by the PDP and well-meaning citizens, President Tinubu’s New Year speech did not articulate any specific direction for the nation or proffer solution to the myriad of problems caused by APC’s misrule.
Relatedly, the President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, said the optimism conveyed in President Tinubu’s New Year speech does not align with the current economic condition of the nation.
The TUC President made the comment during his appearance on the Channels Television program, Politics Today, on Wednesday evening.
Osifo said the presidency is doing more of optimism than reality.
He stated “The president of a country is the chief salesman of a country, his own primary responsibility is to lay out the message that he has laid out.
“To paint a very bright picture, to paint a picture of a lot of goodies that could come in 2025. So he has done what any president in the world could do. So generally, from listening to the statement and reading through it over and over again, we could see that a lot of things were painted with optimism. Daily Trust
