The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress for 2023,Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has implored members of the party APC to tell Nigerians calling for change of government to “shut up their mouths.”
Tinubu gave the directive when he Addressed APC women on Monday.
Tinubu said, “If they say they want a change of government, just tell them we will like to be polite but shut up your mouth.”
The ruling party candidate added, “Prosperity is here. Help is here. Security is here. Banditry has ended. Hopelessness is not in our dictionary.”
Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari APC-led govt has been faced with economic hardship and increased unemployment and poverty as well as heightened insecurity as bandits continue to kidnap many for ransom.
In his Independence Day speech on October 1, Buhari admitted that “despite continuing efforts, unemployment, underemployment, and poverty rates remain high.”
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the rate of unemployment under the Buhari regime rose five-fold from 6.4 per cent in 2010 to 33.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2020.
In 2018, Nigeria displaced India to become the world’s poverty capital, according to a report by Brookings Institution, while the debt profile of the giant of Africa hit N42 trillion in June under the watch of Mr Buhari, according to data from the Debt Management Office.
