President Bola Tinubu has been urged to do his best by leaving the comfort of the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja to feel the pulse of citizens on the streets of the nation.
This call was made to the president by Bola Abdullahi, the interim national publicity secretary of the African Democratic Party (ADC).
Abdullahi, while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, said the president is being lied to by those whom he has surrounded himself.
Reacting to claims on the state of the nation made by Daniel Bwala, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, who was on the same TV programme, Abdullahi said he feels sorry for the president.
He accused Bwala of painting a picture of a perfect nation, while in the actual sense, Nigerians are being slaughtered on a daily basis due to the level of insecurity ravaging the nation.
Abdullahi said, “I feel sorry for President Tinubu because if this is the kind of narrative that he gets there all the time, then it’s obvious that he lives in a bubble. And in the echo chambers of what they are telling themselves.
“The gentleman (Daniel Bwala) who just left here was painting a picture of Eldorado, at a point I began to ask myself, maybe I am in a kind of suspended animation and I am no longer in Nigeria,” Abdullahi said.
Also citing the case of the six law students who were abducted by terrorists on their way to school, Abdullahi said it is important for Tinubu to quit listening to people who are bent on lying to him about the situation of things across the country.
He said, “I mean, he was talking about insecurity being degraded, there are six law students that are still missing, imagine the parents of those children who were just going to school; abducted and kidnappers have the nerve to actually demand N120 million to free these children.
“They are still in captivity. And someone sits here and tells you that insecurity is being degraded? I actually think that President Tinubu needs to leave the Villa and go on the streets and talk to people and stop listening to these kind of narrative, and stop listening to state governors who are just saying what they think they need to say to endear themselves to power rather than tell him the true feelings of the people,” he added.
