FG Responds To Call For Tinubu To Resign Over Hardship, Hunger In Nigeria

FG has responded to the call for Tinubu to resign over hardship and hunger in Nigeria.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the minister of information and national orientation, Mohammed Idris, has given reasons President Bola Tinubu will not resign despite the economic hardship facing Nigeria.

 

This Nigeria news platform understands that the minister, who was reacting to the call by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on President Tinubu to quit if he cannot proffer solutions to the economic hardship in the country, asked the PDP to do the job they were elected to do.

 

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Idris in a statement on Sunday, February 18, by his special assistant on media Rabiu Ibrahim, described the call for Tinubu to resign as nothing but an attempt at distraction by “people who should instead be busy supporting the President’s efforts at bringing economic relief to the Nigerian people”.

 

The minister’s statement partly reads:

“President Tinubu is not and will never be overwhelmed by the current challenges the country is facing. He will not abdicate his responsibilities. He will courageously continue to wrestle with the challenges and surmount them, laying a durable foundation for the new Nigeria that is emerging.

“He has also never shied away from acknowledging the pain of ongoing reforms, and has seized every opportunity to assure Nigerians that inside the pain of the reforms lie the seeds of lasting prosperity and national development.

“To the PDP governors, let us reiterate: This is not the time for distraction. It is time instead for the rolling up of sleeves, to support and complement the hard work of the President and his administration.”

 

Hardship: Activist asks Tinubu to resign

 

In a related development, NewsOnline Nigeria reported that Toyin Raheem, the chairman of a non-governmental organisation, Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance, has President Tinubu to resign.

 

Raheem said the Tinubu administration, though nine months old, has “failed”.

 

He specifically expressed displeasure with the kidnapping epidemic in the country, saying abductors now dare to storm homes and carry out attacks.