The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has slammed President Bola Tinubu for allegedly foisting hardship on the country through his economic policies.

In a press release by the party’s spokesperson, Comrade Mark Adebayo, CUPP criticised the APC administration for being “wickedly inhumane, crudely unjust, horrifically destabilizing and egocentrically unpatriotic”.

The party argued that there is nothing new Tinubu can offer Nigeria in the present circumstance except worsening socioeconomic conditions aggravated by dangerous insecurity”.

It said the president has neither the time nor the answer to Nigeria’s problem and advised the citizens to “deliberately vote out the APC in 2027”.

According to the party, the country now operates like a leaderless society and a rudderless ship, thanks to the “wickedly inhumane, crudely unjust, horrifically destabilizing, and egocentrically unpatriotic administration”, of President Tinubu.

The statement said insecurity has reached an aggravatingly unbearable level with hundreds of Nigerians being killed every week “while entire towns and villages are being ravaged, marauded, and forcefully occupied by both bandits and killer herders while the Federal government under Tinubu slumbers”.

The president, the party noted, pays more attention to his personal health than the collective well-being of Nigerians who he vowed under oath to secure and protect.

“Apart from abandoning Nigerians to the escalated vagaries of insurgency, terrorism, banditry, and all other elements of insecurity, President Tinubu has also abandoned governance. It is a shame that under this incompetent government, Nigeria does not have Ambassadors anywhere in the world today.

“Many government parastatals and agencies, even crucial ones like the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, and many others have not had their boards inaugurated after being constituted almost two years ago or thereabouts. The heads of those organizations are just running one-man shows while only doing the President’s personal bidding to the detriment of proper and efficient functioning of those agencies.

“If government agencies have no governing boards, whatever expenditures those agencies are making and contracts being awarded are not only illegal but also liable to massive corruption.

“Killings in Plateau, Benue, Borno, and throughout the country claim hundreds of lives every week with the government acting helpless and unconcerned for the most part”, the party added.

It criticized the failure of the present administration to organize a security summit to find a lasting solution to the scourge.

“This summit would be addressed by international experts on terrorism/insurgency and violent marauding. Mercenary fighters can be employed to eliminate or flush out these bandits from our country”, it stressed.

Nigeria’s security challenges, it stated, have got to a stage where skeletal or reactive military actions have no intrinsic value whatsoever.

“It requires a concentrated and professional military engagement to tackle by all measures available, including raising a large people’s army to deal with.

“But the president and his cabinet are more interested in enjoying the glamour and powers of office than working on finding permanent solutions to the country’s security and economic challenges that they brought on the country in the first instance.”

The party said a government that created a problem cannot be expected to solve it, adding that the “burgeoning security and economic crises currently bedeviling Nigeria are beyond President Tinubu.

“Therefore, we urge Nigerians to avoid affliction rising a second time by working together with the opposition to vote in a new President in 2027.

“Should Nigerians make the mistake of re-electing Tinubu in 2027, things will get much worse than they are currently and the country may actually collapse under the humongous weight of unmitigated corruption, incompetence, and aggravated insecurity.

“There is nothing new that Tinubu can offer Nigeria except worsening socioeconomic conditions aggravated by dangerous insecurity for which the president has neither the time nor the answer. Nigerians must be deliberate in voting this president out in 2027”, it submitted. (Daily Trust)