The founding national secretary, Alliance for Democracy, AD, Prof. Udenta. O. Udenta has urged President Bola Tinubu to reconstitute his cabinet and seek the support of the opposition parties to address the bad economic situation of the country.
In a a statement signed by him, Udenta warned that if the President failed to solve. the economic crisis, government should expect more hunger protest.
“Unless hunger is mitigated, poverty reduced, prices of staple food items crashed significantly, inflationary pressures lowered, Naira depreciation reversed and the prices of petroleum products made within the reach of the people, the nation should expect more hunger protests in the nearest future, higher in intensity and range than the just concluded ones,” he wrote.
He added: “As Karl Marx so powerfully put it, a time will come when the working people will have nothing to lose but their chains. Such a time is now upon us in Nigeria.
To find solutions to the crisis, he urged the President to call leaders of opposition parties, civil society organizations and other stakeholders and brainstorm on how to solve the economic situation in the country.
” President Tinubu should quickly convene a conclave of the nation’s leading political players such as Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Peter Obi of Labour Party and Musa Rabi’u Kwankwaso of NNPP; the National Chairman of the APC the leadership(majority and minority of NASS), the Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum and the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum.
At the end of the conclave he should re-establish the Office of Special Adviser to Mr President on Inter-Party Relations, re-constitute his cabinet and incorporate elements within the organized political opposition and civic groups, as well as convene a meeting with the nation’s leading civil society lights,” he stated.
He further warned the political class to be wary of their speeches adding that ‘the nation is fragile and people are hurting.’ to avoid setting the country on fire.