Doyin Okupe, former Director General of the Labour Party has disclosed that the party and its presidential candidate in the 2023 election had no clear direction on how to govern Nigeria.
Okupe, who stepped down in 2022 as the Director General of Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation insist that Obi had no policy document on how to run the affairs of the country if he was elected.
The former Presidential spokesman made this known on Monday, according to the news agency of Nigeria, NAN, which quoted him as saying that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms policy is working for the country.
According to him, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, plans on how to run the country cannot be appropriate considering the current situation, Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda “ is the most credible,” he said.
“The Renewed Hope Agenda he (Tinubu) brought is one that can address, and is addressing, the country’s current challenges,” he stated.
Adding,“Tinubu has a better policy document than any of his two rivals during the 2023 presidential election,” said Mr Okupe, who acknowledged that Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an “experienced, knowledgeable and thorough-bred politician.”
“I know that for a fact that he also came with a testament that would have been binding on him and Nigerians. But when you put the testament side-by-side with the current reality on ground, it is not applicable.
He said further, “So the premise Atiku placed his testament on was sinking, and it can’t work,” he said. “As for Peter Obi of the Labour Party, he did not give any document to Nigerians that he was going to work on.”
“In the Labour Party, we didn’t have a document that we could adopt as a policy document for what was going on. All we were saying was that we wanted to take Nigeria from consumption to production; good rhetorics, but it was not grounded either in policy development or principle application.”
Upon his ascendance to power in May 29, 2023 President Tinubu announced as one of his cardinal policies the removal of fuel subsidy.
The administration also floated the naira as part of his reform agenda to transform the country.
Tinubu’s critics, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo however slammed the policies for being too hasty and unilateral, because according to them, the president did not consult widely before taking the very critical decisions.
Also, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has criticized the administration’s major policy thrusts.
They insist that the not-well-thought-out policies have plunged the country into a serious economic crisis with the attendant hardship being currently faced by not a few Nigerians.
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