PRESS STATEMENT
The Socialist Party of Nigeria
(SPN) expresses solidarity to workers, unemployed youths and the working
masses who watched on dispiritedly as President Muhammadu Buhari
was sworn in for a new term of four years on May 29, 2019.
The masses of this country are
justified to have not been excited by the prospects of another Buhari's
four-year term. The previous four years under President Muhammadu Buhari was
characterized by the manifestation of the failure of a capitalist
government as equally obtained under his predecessors. With increasing
poverty, rising unemployment, inflation, poor funding of education
and health care, etc, the government has imposed untold hardship
on the Nigerian people .
As a capitalist government,
the Buhari's government has demonstrated that it is not committed to a planned
economic system that would expand the manufacturing and industrial base of this
country, and create jobs and prosperity for our youth population. Just like
former presidents before him, President Buhari has kept intact the old
order of anti-poor capitalist system in the country, deepening
inequality and hence fostering poverty, restiveness and insecurity that have all
recently pervaded the country.
As a result of the intractable
crisis of capitalism, the masses should expect the intensification of the
capitalist attacks on their living conditions. Indeed, President Buhari and the
CBN Governor Emefiele have warned of harder times ahead. Already,
there have been hints from official quarters of the plan to increase fuel
price, VAT, etc. Therefore, the working masses must be prepared to resist these
as well as other policies that will worsen the already terrible quality of
life. Trade unions and workers must ensure that the new minimum wage is fully
implemented without the retrenchment of a single worker. The working
people and youths must also fight for proper funding of education and health
care. The electricity privatization has proved to be a monumental failure. So,
side by side with the struggle of the community people against the
fraudulent estimated billing, the masses must fight for the return of the power
sector into public ownership. Besides, to avert the debacle of the old NEPA,
the renationalized power sector must be under the democratic control
of workers and consumers. By and large, the masses must not be prepared
to suffer for the privilege and greed of the capitalist elites. We must also
demand an end to jumbo pays and fraudulent contract-system through which the
capitalist elite officially loot the resources of the country.
The results of the 2019
general elections show the dissatisfaction of the working people not only for
Buhari but also his main capitalist challenger Abubakar Atiku and all anti-poor
politicians at all levels. In other words, many Nigerians have concluded that
there is no fundamental difference between the main parties: APC and PDP and
nothing fundamentally good for the masses will come from them.This is
why the elections, both federal and state, recorded the lowest voters'
turnout since the return to civil rule. Therefore, the
emergence of President Buhari was due to the ideological sameness of the main
parties and the absence of a mass working peoples’ party with radical
programme that would break with capitalism. This why we call on trade
unions, workers, artisans, youths and the working masses in general to join the
Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) in order to build it as a mass working people
that is capable of wresting political power from the thieving capitalist elites
at all levels and putting in their place a workers government armed with
socialist policies which would plan the economy such that it will
develop the country and meet the needs of the vast majority.
Abiodun Bamigboye Chinedu
Bosah
Acting National Chairperson National
Secretary
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