Leave strike, support Tinubu to help Nigeria from economic stranglehold – Okechukwu begs Labour leaders

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has enjoined the leadership of labour unions to shelve all plans for industrial action. DAILY POST reports.

He urged the labour leaders to instead support President Bola Tinubu “to bail-us-out from the economic stranglehold of one per cent class of deep pockets.”

Going down memory lane, Okechukwu stated: “There is a national consensus after we lost the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) battle of 1986, by all and sundry and all the presidential candidates on the imperative to remove fuel subsidy and reinforce uniform foreign exchange rate.NYSC Portal

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“To me the strike may not achieve the desired result of addressing gross inequality in the land, since there is no better alternative to the short-term palliatives on the table, urgently fixing the country’s four refineries, as well as implementation of Buhari regime’s Green Imperative Project, aimed at mechanisation of agriculture nationwide.

“Therefore, since we have regrettably succumbed to the nebulous SAP economic policy, the only viable option left is to collectively and pragmatically join Mr President to recover lost grounds and for him to commit class suicide.”JAMB Result

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“Instead, it was being funnelled into the deep pockets and lavish bank accounts of a select group of individuals.

“This group had amassed so much wealth and power that they became a serious threat to the fairness of our economy and the integrity of our democratic governance.

“To be blunt, Nigeria could never become the society it was intended to be as long as such small, powerful yet unelected groups hold enormous influence over our political economy and the institutions that govern it.”

Okechukwu said it was at this point that he came to the inevitable conclusion that Labour needs to calm down “so as not to set our fragile democracy ablaze.”Information Guide Nigeria

“Methinks all Tinubu needs to unbundle our economy from the hands of rent-takers, which our Constitution frowns at, is one, our support and second, genuine advice and thirdly, to mark him bumper to bumper with constructive criticisms on how best to preside over our commonwealth.”