The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reshuffle his cabinet as part of measures to resolve the hardship being faced by Nigerians.
The conference said lack of proper response to the lingering energy, fuel and economic crisis in the country portrayed the Buhari’s administration as insensitive to the plight of Nigerians, hence the need to reorder his cabinet to save the country from further anguish.
Secretary general of the CNPP, Chief Willy Ezugwu, also said in a statement yesterday that the planned 100 percent increment in the Value Added Tax (VAT), the inability of the government to meet its self-imposed April 7 deadline to end fuel queues, and the 45 percent electricity tariff increase, showed that the present administration was not sensitive to public outcry.
“The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has shown severally that it is insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. This is occasioned by its policy decisions that have inflicted serious economic injuries on already impoverished Nigerians.
“Such policy decisions of the present government include its insistence on implementing a 45 percent tariff increase at a time power generation has dropped to zero level.
“We cannot agree less with the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, who insisted that the 45% electricity tariff increase was illegal, unfair, unjustifiable and a further exploitation of the already exploited Nigerians.”
He therefore urged President Buhari to ‘rejig’ his cabinet by putting square pegs in square holes to redress the present situation.
