According to the Labour Party, the nation was returning to the year 2015 with the election of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as President and Vice President, respectively.
The opposition party claimed that it was clear from Tinubu’s inaugural speech that the present administration was determined to take Nigeria back to the route of underdevelopment.
In a statement, Obiora Ifoh, the national publicity secretary of the Labour Party, called Tinubu’s claim that he won the election fairly “a slap on the faces of millions of Nigerians.”
He expressed his dissatisfaction with Tinubu’s inaugural speech, saying it made obvious the shallowness and policy incoherence that his administration, while it exists, hopes to leave Nigerians.
“But today, Nigerians were aghast with the boldness and glee with which Tinubu declared his election as fair. We consider this audacity as a slap on the faces of millions of Nigerians who voted their conscience but were robbed by a collective power of state institutions and brute bringandry unleashed on them.
“What was witnessed today was a celebration of lies and deceit, and that explains why the streets are like graveyards with no pomp and pageantry usually associated with a major feat like what we had today.
“Again, the Labour Party, while campaigning, told Nigerians that if given the privilege to preside, we will, among other things, change our economy from consumption to production, and we provided tangible ways we can achieve that policy.
“But listening to President Tinubu today reading a speech believed to have been penned by his team, it became obvious that we are returning to the 2015 era where we had great expectations but without any means achieving them.
“We are now calling on the highest office in Nigeria, the office of the people, not to allow this government any space to toil with the destiny of this nation again. APC ruined this nation, and we must not allow a worse situation again. We must wake up to our roles of holding accountable those in positions of authority,” the statement reads.
