Báwo ni o ṣe máa dáhùn sí àwọn tó sọ pé ìyà tí àwọn ará Nàìjíríà ń jẹ nísinsìnyí jẹ́ ẹ̀rí pé a ń tún ọrọ̀-ajé náà ṣe?
Mo sọ pé aláìsàn tí kò lè náwó gbé ayé kò jẹ́ ẹ̀rí pé ìtọ́jú náà ń ṣiṣẹ́. Nígbà tí aláìsàn bá kígbe, dókítà a máa gbọ́rọ̀, kò ní pè é ní afẹ̀yìntì nítorí ó béèrè ìgbà tí yóò sàn, kò sì ní tọ́ka sí èrè tó ń pọ̀sí kí ó sì kéde pé ó ti sàn. Mo tún ti béèrè lọ́wọ́ àwọn tó wà nínú ìjọba nísinsìnyí láti sọ fún àwọn ará Nàìjíríà irú ojúṣe tí ẹgbẹ́ òṣèlú wọn ní lórí ipò orílẹ̀-èdè náà, níwọ̀n bí wọ́n ti ṣàkóso fún ọdún 8 kí 2023 tó dé.
Àwọn ìdáhùn tó wà lórí ojú-ìwé yìí ni a túmọ̀ láti èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì nípasẹ̀ ẹ̀rọ, kò sì tíì ṣàyẹ̀wò rẹ̀ láti ọwọ́ atúmọ̀-èdè kan.
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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.