Nigerians have taken to social media to drag President Bola Tinubu over the fresh promises he made at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign rally in Dutse, Jigawa State on Tuesday.
Tinubu promised Nigerians reliable power, reduced cost of living, stronger industrial base, support for small businesses, more jobs, interest-free loans for farmers and improved food security if he is re-elected in 2027.
“We will reduce the cost of living. We will provide reliable power, not the whole privatisation that is not working. We provide you with reliable power in Nigeria.
“We will stimulate a stronger industrial base for our country. We will help nano, small-scale and medium-scale businesses. We will expand job opportunities for real income earners.
“We have to invest in agriculture, we will subsidize farming, we will reward small scale farmers, interest-free loans for farmers are coming, prosperity is coming, food security will happen,” Tinubu said at the rally.
Many of the reactions on the President’s promises centred on one question: “Are you contesting for the first time?”
Some other Nigerians who reacted to the promises said they sound like the same promises Tinubu made before the 2023 election.
They reminded the President of his 2023 campaign promise on electricity, where he told Nigerians that they would have electricity and would no longer pay for estimated bills.
“Whichever way, by all means necessary, you will have electricity, and you will not pay for estimated bills anymore. A promise made will be a promise kept,” Tinubu had said then.
He had also said Nigerians should not vote for him for a second term if he failed to fulfil the promise, unless he provided adequate reasons for not delivering.
“If I don’t keep the promise and I come for a second term, don’t vote for me, unless I give you adequate reasons why I couldn’t deliver,” he had said.
@tobechiohaeri wrote: “Are you contrasting for the first time? After 4 years you are still promising, you spent N17billion on solar for yourself and left us in darkness. Make we give you another 4 years of our life on earth make you waste, how many years come remain. God forbid bad thing.”
@hon_yaroo wrote: “ Promise inside unfulfilled promise? APC is gone, look at the faces of those people in front of him, he knows they are not happy, they don’t want him, the guy is gone.”
@akpancino wrote: “Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on Nigerians. You can’t give what you don’t have.”
@yagazieluchidi wrote: “At this point, I need to start laughing at Tinubu and APC. I used to be angry but right now, I can’t help but laugh. “We will.. We will.. We will” Mr. William. Does this ugly slurry agbero has amnesia that he does not remember he is the fawking sitting president?”
@Aminuidaah wrote: “Many of us had high hopes that the removal of the fuel subsidy would revive some of our mineral endowments—such as the steel company, textile factories, and other mineral deposits—to create more jobs. Unfortunately, we are still battling electricity shortages. It is obvious that some of the recycled politicians have no key to our problems.”
@UWASOMBA wrote: “This has to be the most foolish political stunt to pull. Promises were made the last time yet they remain unfulfilled. Stop fooling yourself, Mr President!”
@Drzoeoluwatoyin wrote: “How do we believe the words of a President who clearly and boldly declared that if he doesn’t solve power issues within 2years in power, if elected as president back then, that Nigerians should not re-elect him.
“ He has been in office for over 3 years and the power supply has been worse and yet he is promising reliable power supply again after failing woefully in the first term. If Nigeria can put their mind to work, President Tinubu will never win the 2027 election.”
