‘Revenue target is meaningless when Nigerians are starving’

Presidential candidate 2023 Labor Party, Peter Obi, has expressed spicy criticism of the claim of President Tinubu Bola Bola that his government has met the revenue target of 2025 Nigeria faster than the schedule.

In a country where millions of people struggle under improving inflation, the collapse of business, and unpaid retirement, Obi said the celebration of the Tinubu income milestone was not only empty but insulting.

Writing in the Handle X verified on Thursday, Obi stated:

“After meeting our revenue target for years faster than the schedule, we must show sensitivity and compassion to the masses who suffer by using resources to a critical area that will help create jobs to reduce the difficulties of the people.”

He showed that the backbone of the country’s economy-small and medium-sized companies (SMEs)-Runted under the neglect of the government.

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“For example, critical economic players and related institutions they experienced a scarcity of serious funds, and the effect shows in the areas they support, such as SMEs. Some of them even protesting because they cannot meet the needs of the banks and their staff.”

Obi ordered the sharpest reprimand for the government’s treatment of retirees, including former soldiers who had risked their lives for Nigeria. “Why retired civil servants, including the services of men and women who have risked their lives for the nation, still protesting percent and unpaid retirement?”

He added: “It is very embarrassing that those who build this nation with their sweat, those who defend them with their lives, and those who have fulfilled their contract obligations are reduced to beg for what they rights, even after the government boasts excessive income.”

The former governor stressed that the amount of income is irrelevant when ordinary citizens do not see the impact in their daily lives. “Achieving the income target is meaningless if it does not have an impact on the lives of the people, if those who serve and build the nation are left with unpaid rights in their difficult years, and those who are truly fulfilling their contract obligations, most of them are SMEs with one form of debt or the other is still not paid.”

Calling urgent reform, Obi warned that the Nigerians could not continue despair while the leaders hit the balance sheet. “Our nation must not continue to throw its citizens into debt and despair. It is time for our government to act responsibly and with integrity. New Nigeria is possible.”