President Bola Tinubu's proposed 90-day cost-of-living relief plan is drawing sharp criticism before it even gets off the ground. The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council has come out swinging, accusing Tinubu of using the plan not to genuinely ease economic hardship, but to court voters ahead of upcoming elections.
The ADC's position is blunt: the relief package, in their view, is political theatre dressed up as policy. The party's campaign council argues that the timing and framing of the plan are designed to deceive ordinary Nigerians who are already struggling with the very real pressures of rising costs.
No further details from the ADC on what an alternative plan should look like have been shared at this stage, and the Tinubu administration has not yet publicly responded to the accusations. What is clear is that the 90-day plan has already become a flashpoint in Nigeria's charged political conversation, and the back-and-forth is only just beginning.
Originally published by BusinessDay.