Posted by President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda has become hopeless, according to Prof. Usman Yusuf, a member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).
On Sunday Politics on Channels Television, Yusuf—who had previously served as Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme—made this statement.
He claims that in the past year, the Tinubu administration has done the opposite of injecting optimism into the Nigerian people by making them feel even more miserable.
People have lost hope, he stated. It breaks my heart to watch our people queuing up for palliative care drinks. Rekindled optimism has transformed into pessimism. All hope has been lost.
“The past year has been filled with nothing but dishonesty, poverty, and despair.
They will begin feeding us their propaganda beginning next week. The average person has not benefited from their actions. They have returned millions of people to multidimensional poverty in only one year, and they have forced millions more children to drop out of school due to parents’ inability to pay for their education.
Instead of calling them “economists,” Yusuf referred to the president’s economic management staff as “tax collectors.”
I don’t see the economic team as economists; they seem more like tax collectors. “Only production grows the economy; taxes have no effect on that,” he stated.
Let us not forget that the slogan of President Tinubu’s campaign was the “Renewed Hope.”
Following a closely contested election in February 2023, the president took the oath of office on May 29, 2023.