A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has described a quest by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be recognized in the Guinness World Records over reforms initiated by him since assumption of office, as a misplaced venture.
Frank made this assertion in a statement in Abuja in reaction to the President’s comment in that regard while speaking in Germany recently.
Tinubu, had, while addressing an audience at the 10th German-Nigerian Business Forum, in Germany, said, “Nigeria voted for me for reforms and from day one of my inauguration, I started the reforms. To me, if you didn’t mention me in the Guinness Book of Records, I’d strive to find a way to insert myself because I did it without expectation.”
But Frank insisted that the only world record the President had set is to have inflicted severe economic pains and unbearable hardship on the people.
“You brandish your removal of fuel subsidy on Inauguration Day as evidence that you ‘hit the ground running’ but you have failed to realise that that singular action has heated up average citizen with attendant pains, tears and sorrow.
“Your purported reforms have wrecked the nation’s currency with $1 now exchanging for over N1,000, up from N600 prior to your swearing-in as President. Yet you claimed to have broken a record capable of earning you a global recognition in the GWRs,” he said.
He insisted that even though the President claimed he was in Germany to woo investors, that none will be willing to invest in the country.
“Foreign investors will definitely not go to a country with a flawed electoral process or where the judiciary cannot be trusted to guarantee justice to protect their investments.”
Frank, who is the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Ambassador to East Africa and the Middle East, said: “He claimed that he had removed fuel subsidy, but fuel is still being subsidised by his administration even though the people now languish under the burden of astronomical increases in the pump price of fuel and other essential petroleum products.
“He went to Saudi Arabia and India and upon return, claimed he had convinced investors there to invest in Nigeria. But up till this moment, no investor from Saudi or India has indicated interest to invest in Nigeria.
“If they didn’t corrupt the system, we’re not supposed to look for investors. Investors are supposed to look for Nigeria with her abundant human and material resources that can attract investors,” he added.
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