Protest: Labour Party urges APC govt to address economic challenges

The Labour Party (LP) has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government to focus its energy on solving the harsh economic reality that has sparked protests in parts of the country instead of adopting a blame game on the matter.

The national publicity secretary of the Labour Party, Pastor Obiora Ifoh, said this in a statement made available to the media.

It reads in part: “Our advice to the APC is for it to look for solutions to Nigeria’s problems, especially the economic ones it created, instead of this propaganda parade.

“Unfortunately, you cannot give what you don’t have. Governance is not about grabbing and running away with power; it is all about making judicious use of it to better the masses.

“On the allegations by the APC that opposition parties are behind protests against the current economic hardships, every right-thinking Nigerian knows that the APC is the originator and sustainer of sponsored protests.

“For the party to now suggest that Nigerians who are on the verge of losing it all because of the bad policy decisions of this administration were sponsored is, to say the least, laughable.

“Those who took to the streets in Minna, Niger State, a state controlled by the APC, went to the streets not as members of opposition parties but as citizens bearing the brunt of this administration’s ineptitude and lack of preparation for governance.

“Irrespective of party affiliations, religious beliefs, or ethnic creeds, we all go to the same market where the prices of goods and services have skyrocketed.

“Our children have had to stay home because their parents can no longer afford their school fees. Because of a lack of planning, the federal government is yet to pay January salaries,” Pastor Ifoh stated.