NLC criticises Tinubu’s speech, says promises misalign with hardships of Nigerians

<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has expressed dissatisfaction with the promises dished out by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his national broadcast speech on Monday.</p>, <p>NLC said his “speech was not the silver black Nigerians expected.”</p>, <p>Contained in a statement signed by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and made available to journalists in Abuja, the Congress said it is committed to its struggles since the President failed to address the current issues that exacerbate suffering and hardship in the country.</p>, <p>The in full reads; “Our review of today’s broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu leaves us with the impression that the promises and assurances made by President Tinubu is not the silver bullet that Nigerians expected. The speech indeed appears to be out of touch with reality and anomalous with the hardship and suffering that most Nigerians are going through now.</p>, <p>“First, the opening statement by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu conveyed a commitment to a better and productive economy. We expected that the next line of statement would be how the present government plans to resuscitate our public refineries which have been lying comatose for so many years and is the major pain point in the whole subsidy narrative. Unfortunately, the entire speech by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was completely silent on the issue of the repair of our national refineries.</p>, <p>“Second, consistent with our perception of the misalignment of Mr. President’s promises and offerings to the reality faced by millions of workers and ordinary Nigerians was the faiture of President Tinubu to unmask those behind the looting of Nigeria’s commonwealth under the guise of petrol subsidy. It is unacceptable for the President and Commander-in-Chief to lament like ordinary Nigerians about a group that Mr. President routinely referred to in his speech as the “elites of the elites” who have stolen so much from Nigeria that they have become so powerful as to constitute a threat to democratic governance. What Nigerians