The Allied People’s Movement (APM) Presidential Campaign Organisation, said the three-day warning strike by Nigerian workers is a referendum of President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid.
The campaign organisation in a statement by Director of Strategic Communication, Richard Ihediwa, said the strike brought into sharp focus Tinubu’s economic policies.
“The raging economic crisis under President Tinubu which gave rise to the organised Labour’s Charter of Demands, further highlights the ills of the anti-people policies of the Tinubu-led administration and the harsh realities they brought to everyday life in Nigeria,” the statement added.
The APM said President Tinubu has no answers to the problems brought to the nation by his administrations.
“The warning strike is a direct referendum on a failed government; a stark measure of how ill-conceived and ill-implemented economic policies have triggered widespread poverty in Nigeria.
“It also raises a fundamental moral and political question about President Tinubu’s quest for a second term,” APM stated.
It wondered how can a government that failed to shield its citizens from the consequences of its policies, could ask the same citizens to renew its mandate?
“It is apparent that a government where capital-budget implementation has been abysmally delayed and repeatedly rolled over for three consecutive years, amidst ceaseless borrowing, diminishing transparency and accountability; amidst unfulfilled promises and running in the background of elusive gains of subsidy removal, should not expect any votes from Nigerians.
“We know that leaders living large at the expense of the people; desensitised to the suffocating cost of living and incapable of measuring productivity cannot protect Nigerians,” the party stated.
It condemned the continued celebration by the APC government of supposed gains of its economic reforms, when those claimed gains remain largely invisible in the daily lives of average Nigerians is self-delusional.
“When wages lose value, the cost of living keeps rising and workers barely survive, government statistics and celebratory claims become meaningless.
“What Nigerians needs are people-based economic reforms with transparent social safety nets; reforms that protect livelihoods and ensure that Nigeria does not disappear under the burden of economic reforms.
“By every reasonable measure of good governance, President Tinubu has failed a basic test. Nigerians cannot afford to promote failure. They deserve a government that has the capacity and integrity to deliver results,” APM said.
It added that Makinde/Daura presidency with its RESET Nigeria Agenda offers Nigerians an alternative with well thought-out, data-driven and people-friendly policies anchored on inclusiveness, intensive national production, adequate security, transparency and accountability in governance.
