By Our Correspondent
As officials of the government and leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) labour to market the achievement of the present administration, a former chieftain of the ruling party, Dr Jackson Lekan Ojo has told President Bola Tinubu that there are no smiles on the streets of Nigeria.
In a message posted on his social media pages, Dr Ojo said government officials and economists have been deceiving Tinubu with statistics that are at variance with the reality on the ground about the economic situation in the country.
Dr Ojo declared that the Tinubu administration has failed woefully in managing the economy but still has time to reverse the negative trend.
According to him, the middle class has been wiped out of the country and only the rich and poor class that are now in Nigeria.
His words: “In the area of security, economy and others, I know President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his administration failed 90 percent, woeful failure, F9 parallel. But there are still time, in the next two years they may improve.
“But nothing is working for now is that you see some economists coming to tell lies that GDP growth is high and that the economy is working. The economy is working in the pocket of the political class.
“There is no middle class today. Before we had the rich, we had the middle class and the poor. Today we have only the rich and the poor. This rich class are not up to 30 percent of the Nigerian – that is to say 70 percent of Nigerians are poor, they are suffering today.”
On the issue of security, Jackson Ojo who is a security expert of global repute, said one of his teachers told him that “the biggest fertilizer or manure for criminality is poverty because he that is down fears no fall.
“Let me round it up with a story. I went to a medical facility; a woman brought her daughter to the place and told them to take N300 and give her some drugs. They told her with condition of baby like this you need nothing less that N3,000. The woman said if that it the case she let the baby go home and die.
“I said Madam why are you saying this? She said even I drop this N300 there won’t be any food for the child to even eat. That is the level we are in this country today. There are some persons that can’t even afford N100.
“A lot of these people are telling lies to Mr President about this and that.
“No, Mr President the streets are not smiling.”
On the controversial report and allegations of genocide against Christians in Nigeria, Dr Ojo the report is not true representation of bandits attacks in the country.
“When Ted Cruz sent some delegations to Nigeria to go and kind of evedrop and get some information to present it on the floor of the Senate of the United States of America, definitely it is either an internal information was sent from here to him or he sent a delegation to do that. Whichever way, it was a very wrong information that was circulated across the world about Nigeria.
“Ninety percent of the victims in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states are Muslims.
“When you go to Kaduna state, Katsina State, Niger State, Kebbi State, Zamfara, including Kogi State 98 percent of the victims are Muslims.
“Recently, during early morning prayers in two mosques in Katsina State they bracket them (worshippers), they killed them and they set the mosques ablaze. Is it a church?
“Some persons predicted some years ago that Nigeria will break up but Nigeria is not breaking up and these people are not happy”.