Kí ni èrò yín nígbà tí àwọn ènìyàn bá ń pè fún ìbániwí ọrọ̀-ajé ṣùgbọ́n ó dàbí ẹni pé ó ń palára fún àwọn Nàìjíríà lásán nìkan?
Mo ní ẹ kò lè gbèjà àwọn àǹfààní tí a ń pèsè fún àwọn alágbára, kí ẹ faradà ìnáwó aṣòfo nínú ìjọba, kí ẹ sì wá máa wàásù ìbáwí ìnáwó nígbà tí àwọn ará Nigeria lásán bá ń béèrè ìtura kúrò nínú iye owó ìgbésí ayé tí kò lè ṣe é fara dà. Ìbáwí ìnáwó tí kò ṣiṣẹ́ bí kò ṣe lòdì sí àwọn tálákà kì í ṣe àtúnṣe, ìkà ni, tí a wọ̀ ní aṣọ gírámà ọrọ̀-ajé. Ẹ kò ní ìrírí ọrọ̀-ajé nípasẹ̀ àwọn nọ́mbà FAAC tàbí àwọn ìpàdé àwọn oníròyìn. Ẹ ń gbé e ní gbogbo ìgbà tí ẹ bá wọ ọjà, ẹ gun ọkọ̀ ìrìnàjò, ẹ san owó ilé-ìwé, ẹ ra oògùn, tàbí tí ẹ bá ń gbìyànjú láti bọ́ ìdílé yín. Kì í ṣe pé bí owó náírà ṣe pọ̀ síi ni ọrọ̀-ajé ṣe túbọ̀ ń dára sí.
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 cannot defend concessions for the powerful, tolerate waste within government and then suddenly become an apostle of fiscal discipline when ordinary Nigerians ask for relief from unbearable living costs. Fiscal responsibility that operates only against the poor is not reform. It is cruelty dressed up in economic grammar.”
He said Nigerians experience the economy not through spreadsheets, press conferences or FAAC communiqués, but through what happens every time they enter a market, board a bus, pay school fees, buy medicine or attempt to feed their families. “Nigerians do not eat FAAC figures. They do not pay school fees with percentages. They do not buy medicine with press conferences, and they do not enter buses with government charts. They live in the real economy, and the real economy is measured by what their money can buy. “More naira is not automatically more prosperity.