A POLITICAL commentator and member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Usman Yusuf, has said that rather than inject the Nigerian people with some hope capsules, President Bola Tinubu has made Nigerians more hopeless in the last one year of his administration.
Yusuf, a former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), said on a television programme on Sunday, May 19: “People have lost hope. It pains me to see our people lining up to collect cups of palliatives. Renewed Hope has turned into hopelessness. People have lost hope.”
In reference to Tinubu’s ‘Renewed Hope’ campaign mantra, Yusuf said: “The last one year has been a year of nothing, but deception, destitution and hopelessness.
“From next week, they will start telling us their propaganda. What have they done to benefit the ordinary people? In a span of one year, they have brought millions of people back into multidimensional poverty, they have pushed millions more children out of school, because their parents cannot pay their school fees.”
He describing the President’s economic team members as more of tax collectors than economists, adding: “The economic team, to me, looks more like tax collectors than economists.
“Taxation does not grow economy; only production does.”
