Over the weekend, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to hesitate to seek advice from technocrats members of the opposition political parties regarding the socio-economic quagmire currently bedevilling the country.
NANS stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and signed by Abdul-Yekinn Odunayo, the Clerk of its Senate, NANS headquarters. The statement said this becomes inevitable given the economic hardship, particularly the hunger currently pummeling Nigerians.
Nothing; all measures being put in place to mitigate the hardship had been swallowed by the high cost of petroleum products, depreciation in the value of the naira, and the astronomical rise in prices of food items, the largest student body in Nigeria.
Declaring that the situation in the country is becoming more precarious and strangulating the citizens, NANS said the time is now for the President Tinubu-led federal government to look for urgent solutions wherever such can be found. It stressed that cabinet members appeared confused “and have no answers to the challenges.”
Odunayo, in the statement, added that students across the country have been seriously affected by the economic downturn, stressing that the incumbent administration must provide urgent solutions to save the country from the socioeconomic precipice.
The NANS Senate Clerk, however, pointed out that Nigerians, especially the students, are tired of receiving “insufficient food items” distributed as palliatives by the Tinubu-led administration, saying only conscientious pragmatic solutions are needed to revamp the country’s economy.
