A former National Publicity Secretary of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, now a chieftain of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Ladipo Johnson, has slammed President Bola Tinubu over a recent statement credited to the President during his meeting with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria.
Ladipo Johnson described the statement as shocking low point in the history of presidential communication in Nigeria.
Johnson wonders how a President could tell citizens facing unprecedented food insecurity that “hunger existed before I was born” and that they should look to their churches for sustenance is a profound abdication of the primary purpose of governance.
“Section 14(2)(b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria explicitly states that ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government’.” Johnson said in a statement on Saturday.
“By shifting the fundamental burden of social welfare from the state to religious
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