Archbishop of the Aba Ecclesiastical Province and leader, Southern Nigeria Bishops Conference, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Dr Isaac Nwaobia, has regretted that the country was on a downward slide and charged the Bola Tinubu administration to stem the tide.

In an interview with Ogbonnaya Ndukwe, the cleric said the continuous slide of the Naira against the American dollar, had also brought Nigerians untold hardships with no plan in place by the Tinubu administration to find solutions to them.
He spoke on other issues in this encounter with Saturday Sun. Excerpts.

Are you saying there is no sign the present government is on course to repair the country?

I still maintain that there is no hope, because up till this moment, the president and his men have not laid any good foundation for such a programme.

Like I said earlier, if he had at the point of assuming office, provided solutions on ways of revamping the economy, like proposals to build new refineries, repair the ones that are not in use, among other things that will boost the economy before subsidy removal, there’ll be hope. Now, we are just managing here, there, failing here, swapping there, making it here and losing there. Just trial and error is what we are doing both in the national economy and people’s individual lives.

The leadership has not shown any seriousness for improvement. So, I still say there is no hope in the present dispensation. We are in a state of hopelessness.