The Labour Party, LP, has described the inaugural speech delivered by President Bola Tinubu as a celebration of lies and deceit.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that Mr Tinubu was sworn-in as the 16th president of Nigeria at the Eagle Square on Monday.
During his speech, the president laid out his plans for the country in the next four years.
But reacting to the speech in a statement on Monday night, the national publicity secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, stated that Nigerians were aware that they were cheated in the last presidential election.
According to the LP national scribe, the new administration lacks plans to fulfil the expectations of Nigerians.
He said: “The Labour Party is disappointed with the inaugural speech made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu today, which clearly exposed the shallowness and policy incongruity that his administration, while it lasts, is hoping to bequeath Nigerians.
“First, the President described “the election that brought him to power as tough but fairly won”. He also said that today was the proudest day of his life.
“However, we consider that speech as defective in many ways. Late President Umaru Yar’Adua, recall, on the inauguration of his government, did state that the election that brought him to power was flawed and imperfect but he promised that he was going to fix the electoral system.
“But today, Nigerians were aghast with the boldness and glee with which Tinubu declared his election as fair.
“We consider this audacity as a slap on the faces of millions of Nigerians who voted their conscience but were robbed by a collective power of state institutions and brute bringandry unleashed on them.
“Nigerians will not forget in a hurry that instruction by the then-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tinubu to “grab power and run with it”, a directive that was effected on the February 25 election day.”
Mr Ifoh said this was the reason for the lack of “pomp and pageantry usually associated with a major feat like what we had today.”
“What was witnessed today was a celebration of lies and deceit, and that explains why the streets are like graveyards with no pomp and pageantry usually associated with a major feat like what we had today,” he added.
He recalled that during the 8-year tenure of the immediate past president, the ruling party fed Nigerians the narrative that the previous government of the PDP brought economic and political calamity upon the nation.
Mr Ifor said: “In all those years, the Buhari government made little or no effort to improve upon these challenges. Nigeria is again about to be confronted with a similar scenario if not a worse scenario.
“APC ruined this nation and we must not allow a worse situation again. We must wake up to our roles of holding accountable those in positions of authority.”
The statement further called on Nigerians, whom he said occupied the highest office ” not to allow this government any space to toil with the destiny of this nation again.”
