Akpabio Insults Starving Nigerians with ‘No Miracle’ Alibi as Tinubu’s Policies Deflate Economic Survival

ABUJA — In a stunning and blunt admission of governance failure, Senate President Godswill Akpabio has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) never promised Nigerians any “miracles” to lift them out of their current crushing economic hardships.

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Akpabio made the provocative remarks while representing President Bola Tinubu at the formal inauguration of a seven-kilometre access road bypassing the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The statement comes at a time when millions of families across the federation are grappling with unprecedented starvation, vertical inflation, and a complete collapse of personal security.

Instead of offering concrete administrative solutions to the severe economic paralysis triggered by the administration’s fiscal reforms, the Senate President chose to shield Aso Rock by downplaying the foundational promises that brought the regime to power.

“When we came into office, we did not promise you miracles that would appear from thin air,” Akpabio stated flatly, shifting the goalposts of executive accountability. “We promised you structural, calculated, and deliberate progress. We promise a renewed hope agenda that will touch the lives of every Nigerian citizen, not just in economic statistics but also in the reality of their daily struggles.”

Insensitive Rhetoric Amid Massive Economic Hardship

Independent economic monitors, labor unions, and civil society groups have fiercely slammed Akpabio’s comments, labeling them as deeply insensitive and insulting to the daily struggles of ordinary citizens.

The “reality of daily struggles” Akpabio referenced has been directly engineered by the harsh, unmitigated policies of the Tinubu administration—most notably the abrupt removal of fuel subsidies and the floating of the Naira. Rather than delivering “deliberate progress,” these decisions have triggered hyper-inflation, driven the cost of basic food items beyond the reach of the poor, and plunged millions into deeper poverty.

Critics point out that while the presidency spends millions of dollars on international public relations to mask these failures, the average Nigerian dinner table is completely empty, rendering the phrase “Renewed Hope” a cruel irony.

Paralyzed Budgets and Systemic Abuse

The administration’s defense of its slow pace is further dismantled by the rampant, unchecked corruption festering within the federal executive and legislative architecture.

While lawmakers passed a massive national budget designed to stimulate relief, independent trackers reveal a total failure to execute the funds for the benefit of the populace. Instead, capital allocations are siphoned into funding luxury multi-billion Naira housing estates for judges and purchasing exotic vehicles for politicians, while critical sectors like agriculture and social welfare receive only paper promises.

This stark disparity between the opulent lifestyles of the political ruling class and the starvation of the masses has fueled warnings that the government has completely abandoned its primary purpose of driving economic survival.

Sacked Food Baskets and Unchecked Terror

Compounding the economic misery is the federal government’s woeful failure to protect the people from a rampant wave of rural terrorism. The nation’s primary agricultural food baskets across the 19 northern states and parts of the South-West have been completely overrun by armed bandits and religious insurgents.

With entire towns like Owa Onire in Kwara State completely deserted and local fields turned into killing zones, farming has ground to an absolute halt. The administration’s complete numbness to this security collapse—underlined by its silence over elite military commanders dying in bandit custody—has directly accelerated the food scarcity crisis.

By hiding behind the excuse that “miracles take time” while actively using state apparatuses to organize 2027 campaign structures and crush parliamentary oversight, the Tinubu-led regime has signaled that political preservation overrides the immediate survival of the Nigerian people.

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