Donald Duke Lambasts President Tinubu For Purchasing New Jet, Yacht Amid Nigeria's Economic Woes
Former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, criticizes President Bola Tinubu’s purchase of a new presidential jet and yacht amid Nigeria’s economic struggles, calling it a failure of leadership.
Former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has condemned the purchase of a new presidential jet and yacht when Nigerians amid the country's economic woes.
Duke spoke with Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television on Friday, noting that it was failure of leadership for President Bola Tinubu to make these purchases, when Nigerians were going through economic crisis.
His words, “There is no glamour in saying your people are going through hard times. It’s a failure of your leadership. If I’m the head of a family, I want my family to have everything. I don’t want life to be difficult for them.
“If life is difficult then I feel I’ve failed to provide for them or do the things I ought to have done. I’d ask him (Tinubu) to see the Nigerian nation as his family. What is good for his family is good for the nation.
“Buying a new aircraft or yacht or living large is a failure. You can’t have kids who are hungry and you are living lavishly, going to parties and wearing the biggest agbada.”
According to Duke, the recent #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests by hungry Nigerians showed that the President has not been a good father to Nigerians.
“A protest is like your kids coming to tell you that ‘Daddy, I am not happy with you. You have failed to do this and do that for me (us)
“I’d ask him (Tinubu) to rethink a number of things that are going on and test his policies. The policy of floating the currency was a mistake because it wasn’t thought through.
“The largest pressure on the Nigerian currency is the importation of fuel, and the way it is being done, it is fuelled by corruption. So, we are paying the price for it,” he added.
Duke, then urged Tinubu to hold security agencies responsible, reform the judiciary, and address the economy with local indigenous solutions, instead of those slammed on him by the Bretton Woods.
“Buying a new aircraft or yacht or living large is a failure. You can’t have kids who are hungry and you are living lavishly, going to parties and wearing the biggest agbada.”
According to Duke, the recent #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests by hungry Nigerians showed that the President has not been a good father to Nigerians.
“A protest is like your kids coming to tell you that ‘Daddy, I am not happy with you. You have failed to do this and do that for me (us)
“I’d ask him (Tinubu) to rethink a number of things that are going on and test his policies. The policy of floating the currency was a mistake because it wasn’t thought through.
“The largest pressure on the Nigerian currency is the importation of fuel, and the way it is being done, it is fuelled by corruption. So, we are paying the price for it,” he added.
Duke, then urged Tinubu to hold security agencies responsible, reform the judiciary, and address the economy with local indigenous solutions, instead of those slammed on him by the Bretton Woods.
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