Speaking in a chat with Daily Trust, Adebayo posited that the focus of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration at the moment is not the economy but “how to settle down and be a government.”
On the Federal Government’s intervention programme occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal he said, “Everything is off, not just the timing. What are we discussing here? Is it governance, poverty, or alleviation or how to run the economy industrial dispute or fall out of removal of subsidy. this is an endless discussion. I hope this is not how they are going to be for the next four years.
“On whose behalf is labour talking? Is it talking on behalf of its members, NLC and TUC – or its talking on behalf of 133 million Nigerians who are in extreme poverty for whom there is a governor elected to represent them so the governor should represent them in their states – or you are talking of the 774 local government area chairmen across the country – or you are talking about the councillors who live with the poor. What I see here is just bickering where policies are not clear. There is no white paper. Just mere announcements. I don’t think this is how to run government in this era 2023.”
