Hardship: Okupe counters Afenifere’s criticism of Tinubu’s govt

A erstwhile Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, says the contiguous economical indicators amusement that the nation’s system is opening to marque a betterment and an evident turnaround is present intelligibly observable.

Okupe, a erstwhile Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, made this remark successful an interrogation with NAN connected Thursday successful Lagos.

He was reacting to the disapproval of President Bola Tinubu by Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, implicit the socio-economic challenges successful the country.

NAN reports that Afenifere had expressed interest connected Wednesday astir what it described arsenic the adjacent illness of the economy.

The Yoruba radical expressed the interest successful a communique issued astatine the extremity of its quarterly gathering successful Ogun.

In the communique, signed by its Deputy Leader, Chief Oladipo Olaitan, and Deputy Secretary-General, Mr Alade Rotimi-John, the radical said the authorities of the system had near the radical perplexed with hardship.

Reacting, Okupe said Afenifere spoke good astir the existent socio-economic challenges, but its effect was belated.

“It is commendable that Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation and present governmental group, has ever lived to its nationalistic stance.

“This is done by criticising the authorities of the time adjacent though a Yoruba man, Asiwaju Tinubu, is the existent president of the country.

“This is 1 of the outstanding and commendable attributes of the Yoruba radical arsenic a contention and Afenifere has been accordant successful this patriotic show of existent nationalism.

“However, portion it is existent that the state and its citizens are undergoing precise harsh socio-economic conditions, principally due to the fact that of beardown and brave economical policies enactment successful spot to close the economical quagmire brought connected the state by the erstwhile administration’s economical indicators amusement that the system is opening to marque a betterment and an evident crook astir is present intelligibly observable,” Okupe said.

According to him, each hands indispensable present beryllium connected platform to enactment the medication to win successful its efforts to revamp the economy