The presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, Seyi Makinde, has urged the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to cease complicating the lives of Nigerians with what he described as “unrealistic policies and projects”.
Makinde who’s the Governor of Oyo State, acknowledged this throughout the MakindeDaura 2027 Presidency South-South Town corridor assembly held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
According to him, the Federal Government has been recognized for enterprise large projects and abandoning them alongside the best way, thereby worsening the residing situations of Nigerians.
“You cannot keep complicating the lives of Nigerians with unrealistic policies and projects. Everything from them is mega. They want to do a super highway, there is Presidential Initiative for CNG, it came to nothing. Naira for crude came to nothing. Has it translated to lower cost of transportation for millions of Nigerians?
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“So, now they mentioned they need to modulate the value of petroleum merchandise, they need to modulate the lives of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians, they need to modulate the future of probably the most populous black nation on the face of the earth.
“Provide for Nigerians your pricing template, we will see Nigerians that can tell us how to make it work for millions of Nigerians.
“So do not complicate issues and say, this coverage, that coverage. Give us the template. Once we have now the template, we will level out the actual figures and inform you how to make it to work for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians,” the APM presidential candidate said.
Makinde also accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of stifling opposition parties, noting that prior to the 2023 presidential elections, the party had no foothold in the South-South.
“I can inform you they’re doing all the pieces doable to make sure that the opposition doesn’t unite. But I’ve information for them. I’m right here within the South-South space and I deal with information, with logic, with science.
“Out of the six states in this region, five were not APC the day after the election, your mandate that you gave freely was taken to APC because of this administration. You have the time now to retrieve your mandate. Tell them who owns this region.
“I’m 100 and one % positive that similar to throughout the 2023 elections, this zone didn’t vote APC, they may vote APM within the subsequent election,” he stated.
Makinde said the APM’s ‘Reset Agenda’ was hinged on education, economic growth, security and federalism.
He also noted that although the South-South region is rich in oil, the people are poor.
