Caleb Onwe 
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has raised its voice again, decrying the level of poverty and hardship in Nigeria, following the consistent fuel price hike.
The group at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday said that the situation was not just depressing, but a sign that the country was sinking deeper under this present administration.
The National Spokesperson of CUPP, Mark Adebayo said that the government’s policies that are responsible for the arbitrary pump price of fuel and its consequential inflation, are anti-people and inimical to natural justice.
Adebayo also debunked insinuation that CUPP is an aggregate of de-registered political Parties, noting that many of the officials are card carrying members of Labour and African Democratic Congress parties.
He said that the group cannot be gagged by state actors who have been spreading the propaganda laced with falsehood against CUPP, but will remain a formidable opposition to anti people policies of the administration.
Adebayo said, “ less than 24 hours ago, in spite of the harrowing economic conditions of the country orchestrated by the atrocious economic policies of the Tinubu administration, the pump price of fuel was again increased to over N1000 per liter.
“ In less than one and half years of the Tinubu administration, fuel prices have been increased by over 2000% which has exponentially increased poverty, hunger and general suffering of Nigerians as persistently unleashed on us by a totally insensitive and wicked administration. This is not the Nigeria we envisaged at the return of democracy in 1999.
“ Despite the tyrannical tendencies of the current APC administration which is misusing the authority of government to silence the voices of the people, we refuse to be gagged or intimidated by the repressive forces of state. We will continue to speak for Nigerians and stand firm on the cause of justice, fairness, and good governance”.
