The National Chairman of Abia State Elders Consultative Forum, Archbishop Princewilll Ariwodor, has challenged President Bola Tinubu, to honourably quit if he had no solution to the crumbling Nigerian economy......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
The cleric, who was recently elected the world President of International College and Council of Bishops and Apostles, ICCOBA, in Dublin, spoke with The Tide’s source in the wake of the nationwide protest against hunger and bad governance.
He argued that the President should not have made himself available to lead the country if he knew he had no solution to the challenges plaguing the nation particularly the hardship created by his policies.
Archbishop Ariwodor cautioned Government against any attempt to scare citizens from holding peaceful protest, describing such as an ambush against democracy.
He decried the precarious economic situation in the country, and called for urgent action to revamp it.
“We have never experienced this level of decay in the economic management of this country. Other leaders were in one way or the other better than the current Government.
“Tinubu should resign if he is unable to fix the economy. The Nigerian economy was far better before he took over. Buhari handed over to him a better economy which he has now destroyed”.
Archbishop Ariwodor warned against use of force to suppress the nationwide protest, insisting that Nigerians have right to peaceful protest.
“Nigerians are hungry and have the constitutional right to express their grievances through peaceful protest.
“The people are not violent, so, why will you apply force against peaceful protesters?
“Why will you flog people and ask them not to cry? You are flogging the nation and shouldn’t ask the people not to cry”.
“We want to dissociate ourselves with the advice of Igbo leaders who found themselves in position of authority, and do not see the level of suffering of the Nigerian masses as a result of bad governance.
“ Why will you want people to keep quiet and remain in the House when a cup of beans is N600 and two cups of garri N500?”
He, however, advised the protesters not to go violent but express their grievances within the ambit of the law.