The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has congratulated Muslims in Nigeria on the occasion of the Eid-el-Fitr celebration, which comes up on Wednesday following the completion of the 2024 Ramadan fasting period.
CUPP said this in a congratulatory message signed by its spokesperson, Comrade Mark Adebayo, a copy of which was made available on Tuesday to newsmen, noting that Ramadan is a demonstration of human resilience and submission to Allah’s will and His clear instructions, as well as a purifying phenomenon that helps humanity to be better in their conduct and relationships with one another across the races and religions, among others.
The opposition coalition, while noting the current hardship in the country, called on all Muslims to celebrate moderately but share love generously.
CUPP, however, decried what it described as “the wicked and anti-people policies” of the current administration, which it said were making Muslims unable to celebrate as they would have wanted to with their families and friends, pointing out that the recent 600 per cent increase in electricity tariffs was not only egregious but utterly satanic in nature.
According to the Coalition, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration’s economic policies are deliberately punitive to the poor masses simply to satisfy the retrogressive neo-liberal agenda of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and other global financial institutions whose main objective is to keep Africa poor and dependent on the West, positing that executing such policies portrayed those currently at the helm of affairs in Nigeria as unrepentant anti-people.
CUPP, therefore, called on the citizens not only to reject what it termed the wicked anti-people policies of the current administration, saying that they “must mobilise to resist any further attempt to increase the suffering in the land by more atrocious economic policies being planned against Nigerians because this government is not about to stop increasing the weight of economic hardships on the people.”
It warned that with hardship currently ravaging the land and impoverishing the greatest numbers of citizens, “Nigeria may become a mass burial ground for people killed by hunger and insecurity, for which the current administration is clearly clueless to fix.”
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