The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to politicise the protest by Nigerians against the current economic hardship and worsening insecurity in the country.
In a statement, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, described the action of the APC as threatening Nigerians’ democratic and constitutional right to protest in the face of agonising poverty, hunger, killings and other harrowing experiences under the Tinubu administration.
The party further slammed the APC’s perceived insensitivity, and wondered if the ruling party is relishing the life-discounting situation in the country.
It reads in part: “This approach by the APC, instead of listening to the people, is not only offensive but akin to pushing Nigerians to the wall and daring them to do their worse.
“It is an assault on the sensibility of the people that rather than providing answers to how the Tinubu-led APC government in a space of nine months, turned the nation’s economy upside down leading to terrifying food scarcity and catastrophic high cost of living, the APC is seeking to label and clamp down on the suffering masses.
“Any government that has an idea of macro-economic policy management ought to have recognised that the suffocating policies of abrupt increase in the pump price of petroleum products, high cost of electricity and arbitrary floating of the naira as executed by the Tinubu administration without due considerations, would have excruciating consequences to the economy as being witnessed today.”
