Afenifere, the Pan Yoruba socio-political group, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to effect dramatic changes in policies allegedly making life difficult for Nigerians.
Afenifere, in a statement in Ibadan Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, tasked President Buhari to do this before the end of his administration on May 29.
The Pan Yoruba organisation maintained that going by President Buhari’s plea for forgiveness, many Nigerians “may be inclined to forgive Mr. President and change their notions of him” if he can effect dramatic changes in policies that are making life difficult for Nigerians.
Afenifere said: “Many more people may be inclined to forgive Mr. President and change their notions of him if, within the remaining 34 days he has left in the office, he could effect dramatic changes in policies that are making life difficult for Nigerians.
“This is possible to do if the President really wants the negative perception of his administration to ameliorate.”
Throwing the posers, Ajayi said: “Among steps to be taken are the immediate payment of the eight months salaries of university dons, decisive action that will permanently halt banditry, kidnapping and sundry terrorism activities in the country.
“Allowing those who desire to import fuel to do so for the price of the commodity to come down to less than N100 per litre just as prices of other energies like electricity, gas, kerosene and diesel should come down to about the same N100 per measure instead of about N750 that a litre of diesel now costs.
“To ensure that this is permanent, government can license Nigerians who are into modular refineries to start producing even with tax moratorium while serious efforts are made to bring the four refineries in the country back into production line.”
The group’s publicity scribe further said “efforts should also be made to ensure that those in IDP camps are resettled in their ancestral homes with adequate steps taken to ensure that they are no longer worried by bandits again forever.”
They also said the “stranglehold on the economy, especially through unfriendly fiscal policies, be relaxed so that economic activities can quickly bounce back,” adding, “these things are possible to be done successfully before May 29, 2023 if President Buhari and his team really desire to do them.”