Makinde campaign group calls Tinubu ‘modern-day Pharaoh,’

The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organization (MDPCO) has described President Bola Tinubu as a “modern-day Pharaoh,” accusing his administration of worsening Nigerians’ hardship and insisting that he can’t lead the nation to a greater future.

The organisation made the remarks in a press release on Wednesday signed by Richard Ihediwa, the organisation’s director of strategic communications, reacting to Mr Tinubu’s latest reference to Egypt whereas ruling out a return to gasoline subsidy.

“Of course, Pharaoh cannot lead to a Promised Land,” the assertion learn.

Mr Ihediwa accused the president of failing to reply adequately to Nigerians’ struggling, arguing that his insurance policies had elevated the financial burden on residents.

“President Tinubu’s hardness of heart and refusal/failure to heed the wailing of suffering Nigerians shows that, like Pharaoh, he appears to relish the sight of citizens struggling in grinding poverty and misery,” the assertion quoted the campaign group.

The campaign organisation, which is championing the presidential bid of Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and his Lawal Daura forward of the 2027 election, additionally accused the administration of weakening democratic establishments, limiting accountability and failing to handle insecurity.

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It mentioned rising meals costs, transport fares and rents had made life more and more troublesome for households, whereas declining buying energy and unemployment had deepened financial uncertainty.

The group additionally criticised the federal authorities’s schooling insurance policies, significantly increased tuition charges in tertiary establishments and the reliance on pupil loans, arguing that these measures had made schooling much less accessible to poorer Nigerians.

On safety, the organisation accused the administration of failing to adequately defend communities, faculties, locations of worship and highways from assaults by bandits, terrorists and kidnappers.

The group mentioned Mr Tinubu’s reference to a promised land was at odds with what it described because the hardship confronting Nigerians.

“Nigerians are too famished to gird their loins for a journey that lead to nowhere,” Mr Ihediwa mentioned. “They know that his ‘promise land’ is a wilderness of hunger, hardship, hopelessness and uncertainty.”

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The organisation introduced Mr Makinde instead, saying his proposed Reset Nigeria agenda supplied a plan for nationwide renewal forward of the 2027 presidential election.

Mr Makinde, who’s operating for the presidency on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), is in search of to problem Mr Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, within the election.

The campaign organisation mentioned the proposed agenda prioritised inclusive governance, transparency, accountability, improved safety, financial productiveness and a extra environment friendly public service.