In his reaction to the #endhunger and the #endbadgovernance protests, President Bola Tinubu ignored the demands of the protesters and the suffering of the people of Nigeria and merely repeated the talking points of his government in the last 14 months. He did not provide any immediate solution to the hunger devastating Nigerians due to his economic policies. He did not speak as a man who heads a government that has reached the peak of bad governance in Nigeria’s history. He sounded like a man living in a world different from where the people he claimed to govern lived. The president essentially gave Nigerians protesting against biting hunger and bad governance the middle finger.
Here are the top ten lies President Tinubu told in his address to the nation.
10: Tinubu said that he heard the protesters loud and clear. A man who heard the witches loud and clear does not go about behaving the same way he did before the witches started crying. But Tinubu did. It is proof that he heard nothing and learned nothing.
9: Tinubu said he must protect lives and properties as president. Meanwhile, a large chunk of Nigeria has been under the control of bandits and different armed groups, but the president has not vowed to protect lives and properties in those areas with the vigor he used now that he felt his government is on the line. Instead, more IDP camps are springing up across the country, with farming communities wiped out…
