A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, on Sunday, begged President Bola Tinubu, to act very quickly and save the Nigerians from further hardship.
Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, said that the suffering Nigerians were passing through at the moment has made it mandatory for the President to act faster and employ strategies that would bring instant reprieve.
The APC Chieftain, while speaking with newsmen in Osogbo, although expressed confidence in President Tinubu's ability to ameliorate the suffering of the masses, he however, suggested that strategies that would bring instant relief should be adopted.
The member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), also noted the economic hardship the masses were currently going through due to the increase in pump prices which has led to the rise in prices of food stuffs, as well as the rise in electricity tariff, cost of cooking gas, among others thus making life unbearable for Nigerians.
He said the recent increment in the pump price has worsened the hardship Nigerians were contending with.
He said: "Nigerians are hopeful that there will be positive turn around in the country but measures to achieve this must be accelerated.
"There is no doubt that the president is doing everything humanly possible to ameliorate the suffering of the masses, but a faster approach must be considered.
"The president should ensure that every bureaucratic bottleneck that is impeding the swift implementation of policies that will put smiles on the faces of the masses is removed.
"The economic suffering the masses are currently going through is becoming unbearable and the president must act fast."
While he urged the president to address the delay in the implementation of the suspension of customs duties and taxes on imported food items two months after the initiative was announced, he said: "There is no doubt that the president is passionate and willing to put smiles on the faces of the masses but those who are in charge of implementing these policies should not be seen as road blocks.
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"The president gave a directive to
the authorities of the Nigeria Customs Services that a 150-day duty-free window to allow the importation of maize, husked brown rice, and wheat and almost two months after this is yet to be implemented.
"That is not good enough. The president cannot be every where and that is why his foot soldiers must be proactive in taking steps to achieve the president's desire.
"The masses are angry and hungry. And that is why all measures to ameliorate this should be implemented very quickly."
