October 4, 2026
Press Statement
Labour Warning Strike: A Referendum Against Tinubu’s Re-election Bid - MDPCO
The Makinde/Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO) says the three-day warning strike by Nigerian workers has further brought into sharp focus the catastrophic consequences of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic policies, asserting that a Makinde/Daura Presidency with its blueprint for economic recovery, will lead the nation out of the misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
The raging economic crisis under President Tinubu which gave rise to the organised Labour’s Charter of Demands, further highlights the ills of the anti-people policies of the Tinubu-led administration and the harsh realities they brought to everyday life in Nigeria.
The APC government that lit the "fire" now consuming the entire nation has become a firefighter without a hose as President Tinubu obviously has no answers to the problems brought to our nation by his administrations
The warning strike is a direct referendum on a failed government; a stark measure of how ill-conceived and ill-implemented economic policies have triggered widespread poverty in Nigeria.
It also raises a fundamental moral and political question about President Tinubu’s quest for a second term.
We ask, how can a government that failed to shield its citizens from the consequences of its policies, credibly ask the same citizens to renew its mandate?
It is apparent that a government where capital-budget implementation has been abysmally delayed and repeatedly rolled over for three consecutive years, amidst ceaseless borrowing, diminishing transparency and accountability; amidst unfulfilled promises and running in the background of elusive gains of subsidy removal, should not expect any votes from Nigerians.
We know that leaders living large at the expense of the people; desensitized to the suffocating cost of living and incapable of measuring productivity cannot protect Nigerians.
Indeed, the continued celebration by the APC government of supposed gains of its economic reforms, when those claimed gains remain largely invisible in the daily lives of average Nigerians is self-delusional.
When wages lose value, the cost of living keeps rising and workers barely survive, government statistics and celebratory claims become meaningless.
What Nigerians needs are people-based economic reforms with transparent social safety nets; reforms that protect livelihoods and ensure that Nigeria does not disappear under the burden of economic reforms.
By every reasonable measure of good governance, President Tinubu has failed a basic test. Nigerians cannot afford to promote failure. They deserve a government that has the capacity and integrity to deliver results.
The Makinde/Daura Presidency with its RESET Nigeria Agenda offers our nation a clear alternative with well thought-out, data-driven and people-friendly policies anchored on inclusiveness, intensive national production, adequate security, transparency and accountability in governance.
This is why Nigerians from all walks of life and even across party lines are queuing behind the Presidential Candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Engr. Seyi Makinde in their collective quest to use the 2027 Presidential election to RESET Nigeria to a nation that truly works for all.
Signed:
Richard Ihediwa Director of Strategic Communication MDPCO