The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, criticised President Bola Tinubu’s 2024 budget as a harvest of deceit, false claims, and empty promises.

The PDP described Tinubu’s New Year address as unpresidential, uninspiring, and a waste of valuable time. It said the president’s speech did not address any of the critical issues plaguing the country.

In a similar vein, the Labour Party (LP) said the president’s speech lacked substance, stating that most right-thinking Nigerians are appalled by the hollowness of the New Year address.

In a statement by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the party said Nigerians were dismayed, as Tinubu took to rhetoric and failed to address the critical issues of insecurity, decayed infrastructure, comatose manufacturing and productive sectors, crushing 28 per cent inflation rate, continuing plunge of the Naira, unemployment, poverty and economic hardship occasioned by the reckless, ill-advised and insensitive policies and programmes of his administration.

According to the statement, “President Tinubu failed to address the vexatious issue of incompetence, insensitivity, massive profligacy, unbridled treasury-looting inherent in his administration, which have put our nation in dire straits.

“More distressing is that President Tinubu had no words in his New Year address for the Christmas eve genocidal massacre of over 200 Nigerians by terrorists in Plateau State and the murder of over 5,000 citizens in Plateau and other...

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