Arise News Politics Editor, Sumner Sambo, has called on President Bola Tinubu to stop blaming the opposition and focus on tackling poverty in Nigeria.
Sambo made the call on Monday during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.
He said that Nigerians want to know what the Tinubu administration is doing to reduce poverty and hunger and not hear the government blame the opposition.
According to him, the President should present clear poverty reduction targets, show the progress made and outline what Nigerians can expect if he seeks re-election.
“President Tinubu must focus on tackling poverty and not blaming the opposition. What Nigerians want to know is what his government is doing. What has he done to reduce the issues of poverty?
Those are the indices that we need to actually have. He should say, ‘Look, this is where I met the poverty rate in the country. This is what I’m doing, and if you re-elect me, this is where I project that we will be.
So the speechwriters of Mr President should try to put that in focus and emphasise this issue of pointing to the opposition, because the opposition that we have right now is not the same opposition they were making reference to in those days,” he said.
