PDP Chieftain Scores FG Low On Nigerians’ Welfare … Hails Fubara Over CTC Appointment

Against the current hard ship and hunger being endured by Nigerians, a notable grassroots politician and member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, Pastor Joe Opanwa, says All Progressives Congress (APC) administration at the federal level is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s economic and political challenges, especially poverty and insecurity.
Speaking with newsmen in Port-Harcourt recently, Pastor Opanwa said that Nigeria’s economic and political situation need to be overhauled to bring the expected dividends of democracy to Nigerians.
He maintained that, “This current Nigerian government under the administration of President Bola Tinubu remains a retrogressive one.
“Most of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of hardship, hunger, corruption, insecurity and deaths”.
Pastor Opanwa said that the APC-led Federal Government promised peace, economic stability, abundant food, creation of jobs for Nigerians and security of lives and property, but noted that under its’ unwatchful eye’, insecurity, hunger and injustice have grown and Boko Haram/herders onslaught, among other insurgencies has turned large tracts of Northern Nigeria into ‘ no man’s land ‘.
He said that in the face of the economic crunch bedeviling Nigeria currently, there is no need for President Tinubu to continue in 2027 as the country’s president.
Pastor Opanwa, a stalwart of the Simplified Movement in the LGA, who also aspires for the position of Chairman of Oyigbo LGA in the scheduled October 5, 2024 Local Government election, further said that, “As leaders in Nigeria, we intend to pursue dynamic, time- tested and bold policies and programmes that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for all of us.”
He stated that Nigerians had become increasingly divided as a people because the APC-led federal government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty, hardship, hunger, insecurity, injustice and deaths, adding that, “They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms.”
The Chairmanship hopeful of the PDP in the area, urged the Federal Government to apply consistent policies and programmes of targeted law enforcement operations along with active programmes of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty to lead Nigerians out of the present dire condition.
“The Bola Tinubu government set up multidimensional development committees, but all to no avail. This is symtomatic of a confused leadership.
If there is security in this jumbled policies and programmes of Bola Tinubu’s government, neither we nor the majority of Nigerians can find it”, he said.
He described the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections and governance with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal thing to happen.
Meanwhile, Pastor Joe Opanwa, has commended Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara over the appointment of Engr. Gogo Philip as Chairman, Caretaker Committee of Oyigbo Local Government Area.
He described the appointment as remarkable and a call to service of Oyigbo people for them to benefit from the dividends of democracy that had eluded them previously due to bad leadership in the area.
Pastor Opanwa, however, urged Engr. Philip and his team to operate an open door policy in governance, where quality contributions to the way forward of the LGA and its people can be made.

Bethel Toby