Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has accused President Bola Tinubu of insensitivity for embarking on a private trip to France when the country is in dire need of leadership.
The coalition also expressed worry over the frequency of President Tinubu’s foreign trips and scornfully noted that the country has returned to the era of former president Muhmmadu Buhari.
CUPP’s National Secretary, Peter Ameh, in a statement issued in Abuja, suggested that comprehensive health fitness test should be made compulsory for political leaders to avoid the situation in future.
“It is our hope and belief that these private trips do not involve something untoward that is hidden from Nigerians who voted for him to salvage the country which has been on downward spiral.
“Tongues have begun to wag, and speculations beginning to abound about the real reasons for these private trips. We hope that Nigeria is not about to witness another Buhari presidency where from time to time without any form of announcement, the President would sneak out of the country to a foreign country for medical treatment in the name of private visit.
“President Tinubu should realise that Nigeria is beset on all sides by insecurity, galloping inflation, hunger and starvation, unemployment that is running wild, and out of control, etcetera. The value of the naira is speeding southward with our currency exchanging at almost N1500 to the United States Dollar,” Cupp lamented in the statement.
Reacting further, the coalition noted: “CUPP feels and recommends that the country needs a hands on deck president, and whatever the reason for these private visits can be conveniently handled in Nigeria or in the absence of such facility being available, provision should be urgently made to have it brought to Nigeria.
“Nigeria needs the physical presence of their president to have that assurance that the job of Mr. President has not been outsourced to those who have no business exercising it,” the statement read.
