ABUJA – The Labour Party (LP) has revealed that many Nigerians who traveled for the Christmas celebration may never return to their bases.
The party attributed this to what it described “as the economic strangulation perpetuated by” the President Bola Tinubu administration “as one of its economic policies.”
In a statement on behalf of the National Chairman, Julius Abure, LP’s National Publicity Secretary, Obiorah Ifoh, queried the federal government’s special transport policy for Nigerians traveling during the Yuletide.
Abure wondered why the administration would employ the services of only 5 transport companies to compliment “a rail service which completely excluded a particular Christian dominated zone” of the country.
He bemoaned the policy which guaranteed reduction by half, the transportation for holiday markers, as he queried the counsels on which the government’s decisions are based.
While lamenting at the number of beneficiaries of the scheme, which according to him will be less than 0.05 percent of Nigerians, Barrister Abure said “The question has always been what happens after the yuletide when the scheme would have ceased to function?
Would the government also subsidize the transport system in Nigeria as it boasted months ago?”
He further regretted that “The destiny of nations is being changed by men in the position of authority and the will of God is being continuously subverted by power hijackers.
Nigeria is an example of a nation which God created and ensured that abundance of deposits of resources are huge enough to make us a giant nation.
Nigeria must have been created as a perfect example of ‘heaven on earth’ but leadership has remained the bane and today, in spite of the abundance of resources, Nigeria is ranked as one of the poorest nations in the world.
Today, most Nigerians would be celebrating Christmas empty stomach due to bad leadership.”
This is as he called on Nigerians to let the lessons learned from the birth of Jesus Christ guide our lives individually and collectively in order to make the world a beautiful place to live.
“Christmas is known as the day of remembrance for the birth of Jesus Christ but beyond that significance, it is the remembrance of the day Heaven came down to the earth for the sake of redemption of mankind.
“His coming was to bring joy to the world by reconciling humanity with divinity.
He came to make the world a better place but today that purpose is being defeated by the evil actions of men,” he added.
Continuing, the LP national leader stressed, “Schools will be opening in early January, how do the poverty stricken Nigerian grapple with that chaos waiting to happen?
“Did it ever occur to this government that a good percentage of those Nigerians traveling may never return to their base due to economic strangulation perpetuated by this government as one of its economic policies?
In all these uncertainties facing millions of Nigeria, I will still wish Nigerians a happy celebration and also plead with them to keep fate alive because a new Nigeria is not just possible but is already on the horizon.”
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