How do you respond to claims that the pain Nigerians feel now is just proof the economy is being fixed?
I say a patient who cannot afford to live is not proof that the treatment is working. When a patient cries out, a doctor listens, he does not call him regressive for asking when he will get better, and he does not point to rising revenue and declare him healed. I have also asked those in government now to tell Nigerians what responsibility their party bears for the state of the country, since they governed for eight years before 2023.
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You say Nigerians must endure the pain because you are curing the disease. But when a patient cries out, a doctor listens. He does not call the patient “regressive” for asking when he will get better. He does not point to the hospital’s rising revenue and declare him healed. A patient who cannot afford to live is not proof that the treatment is working.
And you cannot speak as though you arrived from the moon in 2023. Your party had governed Nigeria for eight years. If the country was as sick as you say, tell Nigerians what responsibility your party bears for its condition.
Let us bring this argument down from the podium to the places where Nigerians make their daily choices: the filling station, the market stall and the breakfast table. In April 2023, a ₦30,000 minimum wage could buy about 118 litres of petrol. Today, a ₦70,000 minimum wage buys just 50 litres. The salary has more than doubled on paper; the petrol it can buy has fallen by more than half.