Afenifere also told the president that it was time for him to demonstrate political will to go after the terrorists wreaking havoc in the country especially in the northern Nigeria.
Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has advised President Bola Tinubu to fix the country's economy, lamenting that Nigeria has become the hunger capital of the world.
Afenifere also told the president that it was time for him to demonstrate political will to go after the terrorists wreaking havoc in the country especially in the northern Nigeria.
Afenifere which gave the advice in a statement on Monday, jointly signed by its Publicity Secretary and Assistant, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo and Justice Faloye respectively, reminded the president that he could not afford to fail Nigerians in the critical national assignment.
“The Nigerian naira plunged to its lowest point on record in official trading as a shortage of US dollars persisted despite promises by the government to boost supply, lamented the Yoruba apex body, adding “Our people are dying due to hunger."
"Nigeria has become the hunger capital of the world. How are the people, so impoverished be saddled with paying ransom to kidnappers right in the middle of possibly the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world that even Ukraine a country with Russia lasting two years and still counting, is now the one to be sending humanitarian aid to Nigeria?
“Let the people begin to see a change, Mr. President — A challenge being tackled over the years with the same methods, cannot yield a different result from a certain failure,” the organisation said.
Reacting to the upsurge in the terrorists activities in the northern Nigeria, especially the recent killings in Plateau as well as the abduction of over 200 schoolchildren in Kaduna, the Yoruba apex body told Tinubu to be ready to be disgraced and booted out of office should he overlook the other way while bloodletting continued in the country.
“It is down to you Mr. President if you would rather go the way of your predecessors, by looking the other way and let innocent blood flow, be disgraced and set for an early exit or find the strength, the will and the courage to face the sponsors of terror, with the resolve to eradicating this Àbíkú scourge from ever again taking root anywhere in our land,” Afenifere said.
While calling on President Tinubu to commence immediate restructuring of the country along regional lines, Afenifere reiterated the need for the country to return to the parliamentary system of governance.
“Return the country to the parliamentary system of government. Bring back regionalism and watch our countrymen and our hopeless children begin to live again in dignity, right before your very eyes,” it said.