A former Minister of Sports and Youth, Solomon Dalung has reacted to President Bola Tinubu’s appeal to Nigerians to sacrifice more for the nation’s survival.
Dalung during an interview with Legit NG said if President Tinubu wants Nigerians to make sacrifices to adapt to the policies of his government, the sacrifice must start from him as the President and number one leader in the country.
According to him; “People cannot eat and the president is saying we should sacrifice for a future. By my understanding, what the president is saying is that the current generation of adult Nigerians should surrender to death so that maybe their children if they survive, they can live. The call for sacrifice by the president is suicidal. He must start first before Nigerians would follow.
“I don’t see the call for sacrifice as sincere. It is not honest for you to be living in affluence and then be asking your followers whom you are supposed to govern with compassion to sacrifice, while the meager resources available which could have been used as succour are now being diverted to servicing the cost of governance.
“So, the president has not done too well so far — but it is not too late.”