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Fuel Scarcity: Tinubu Is Incompetent – CUPP
His Incapability Has Been Exposed
Fuel Scarcity resulting from shortage in supply has been a Nigeria’s major problem in recent months which has forced its purchased to be exorbitant for the users.
Many users cannot afford the pump price of the product, even those who can afford it has no means to purchasing the product. This facto has led many automobile users abandon their vehicles and joined countless number of commuters struggling to afford the high-cost fare of public transports in the country.
The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of being incompetent has been exposed, that his frailty has exposed by the current issue of fuel scarcity marring the country.
Comrade Mark Adebayo, the spokesperson of the CUPP, said that the current is bereft of an idea to fix the country’s problems and they seem to be fast asleep as the country burns.
“The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, views the current artificially induced fuel scarcity nationwide as a satanic ploy by the failed APC government to further increase the pump prices of fuel which will further exacerbate the mass suffering of Nigerians.
“The government has not been able to advance any reasonable argument for the persistent fuel scarcity in the country that has further worsened the already desperate economic situation of the country. This government has no solutions for the problems it has created for Nigerians.
“We make bold to say that this is a government run by a cabal of incompetent, unpatriotic and rapacious power cultists who can’t care less about the people’s suffering, but focusing solely on feathering their own nests and feeding their insatiable greed and avarice at the expense of Nigerians.
He furthered by tasking Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) plc. to explain, to Nigerians, how it incurred such a huge amount of debt owing suppliers.
“The NNPCL owes Nigerians explanations as to the cause of its huge debt of over Nine Trillion Naira it’s owing fuel suppliers who have now threatened to stop fuel supply to the country.
“Should the fuel scarcity get worse than this, the security situation of the country which is already very bad will even get worse, not to talk of the resultant economic meltdown and allied social crises.
“President Tinubu and those in power with him snore away as the country is on fire. They are so clueless now that their incompetence has been exposed by the staccato of policy somersaults they apply to the crises that their mishandling of the country has caused.
“The current administration behaves like a political undertaker to bury Nigeria as the primary purpose of seeking the highest office in the land. In all ramifications, the Tinubu administration has failed woefully and there is no magic they can perform to reverse their parlous records in the last fifteen months.
“It is now crystal clear that President Tinubu never prepared for the serious business of governance. He just wanted to be president”
Fuel Scarcity: Tinubu Is Incompetent – CUPP
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“Address Protesters’ Demands, Don’t Repress Them,” Briton Replies Tinubu Amidst Alleged Claim That Plans Are In Place to Topple His Government.
Drew Povey, a British Citizen, who is accused to have provoked insurrection against President Tinubu’s Administration has implored the Nigerian Government to stop treating protesters as terrorists.
Povey, who is also known to be Andrew Wynne has reacted to allegations levelled against him by Nigerian Government of building “a network of sleeper cells to topple the Bola Tinubu administration by plunging the nation into chaos.”
Povey who is known to have a Bookshop situated at the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), in Abuja, which had previously raided and sealed.
One of the charges brought forth against him was that he aided the #EndBadGovernance demonstrators’ effort and push to destabilise the country.
“PROTEST IS NOT TREASON” – release all the detainees! It is the statement on the letterhead of his bookshop.
It is to be recalled that the #EndBadGovernance and #EndHunger protest was staged in Nigeria between 1st August and 10th August (10 days), 2024; a protest said to have thrown the government into panic and fright mode.
However, in swift response to the demonstration and protest, the government refused to address the needs of the protesters, instead resorted to repression.
Not less than forty (40) protesters were killed in the joint-operation of the police and other security agencies. Protesters in thousands were apprehended and detained till this moment.
The organisers and conveners of the protest were seen attacked by the security forces in Abuja which has seen ten (10) out of the detainees facing charges on mutiny, insurrection, treason, war peddling, among others.
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to embark on nationwide industrial action to protect its president from unlawful arrest and detention.
Some of the detainees, despite plethora of evidence presented against them face long period in detention unless if they are also considered by the trade union in their pre-movement plans.
On the first 7th day into the 1o-day protest, the NLC stated its distaste, thus, “we condemn in the strongest terms the human rights violations perpetrated by security forces against peaceful protesters.”
In connection to this, Eleojo Opaluwa, a former colleague of the president of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, as organizer at Electrician Union (NUEE), Abuja, was the first person to be nabbed. Eleojo is also the Vice Chair of Kogi State Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress.
He has been in detention for almost a month now without any evidence of inappropriacy or treason against him. It was eventually revealed by the family member, after his arrest, that he was lured out of his abode by through a Whatsapp message he received from one of the union leaders.
The detainees have charged with conspiracy and alleged move to commit wide range of chaotic and destabilising crimes against the country.
Howbeit, reports have indicated that most of these detainees cannot describe themselves for they do not know one and other. Most of the detained protesters may have been members of whatsapp groups used in mobilising for the nationwide #EndBadGovernance and #EndHunger protest.
Five out of the ten detained protesters facing charges are confirmed to be Whatsapp members created to mobilise people for the Abuja protest, while the other five are very much known and recognized by the organisers and conveners of the protest.
During the ten-day nationwide protest, there appeared waving of Russian flag in Kano, Sokoto, Maiduguri, and a few parts of the North, which eventually highlighted few impasse between the government and the security agencies investigating the scene.
Meanwhile, the head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) revealed to the detained protesters that he might love to release them but he was simply acting based on the directives issued from above.
Therefore, a case quickly ensued between the fled Chairman of the Iva Valley Books, Andrew Povich; who is a Russian, accused of influencing and aiding the protesters to wave his country’s flag.
Reacting to tis claim, one of the staff at Iva Valley Books, named “Yomi”, refuted the claims and said “it was not true.”
Yomi, whose phones were seized, was unlawfully arrested and put in detention in the presence of his wife and three-year old daughter, not given fair treatment, even despite the wife’s plea.
He was eventually imprisoned, denied all access to him despite his wife’s entreaty that they were hungry and be allowed to use their phone to get money for feeding.
Yomi, in shackles, was beaten severely, imprisoned, tortured for three days. His only involvement in the act came when he was tasked by his boss to design flyers for the protesters which he would not decline.
In the view of all, the NLC has proved that it has momentum needed to protect its president from unlawful arrest. The matters remains to be seen if such a power can also be utilized to protect other members of the union and the general public.
Fuel Scarcity: Tinubu Is Incompetent – CUPP
