The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has urged President Bola Tinubu to re-evaluate his economic policies, stressing that they have begun to bite hard at Nigerians.

He made the call when delivering his welcome address at the opening session of the 2024 Second Plenary Assembly of the CBCN held in Auchi, Edo State on Sunday, August 26.

According to him, the renewed hope agenda by the President has done more harm than good to Nigerians.

He noted that the problems affecting Nigerians are beyond the economic reforms that have been put across by the government while advocating the need to return to a
regional system of government to checkmate corruption and put the nation at the right footing.

“When all is said and done, we must admit that the cost of running our military imposed presidential system of government with so many elected officials assisted by numerous support staff is staggering and unsustainable.

“We must also acknowledge that the corruption level of many Nigerian politicians have gone beyond scale and measure and that controlling our national resources at the federal government level creates more opportunities for corruption to flourish.

“Having experimented on the presidential system of government for over 25 years and having groped in the dark in search of solutions to our socio-economic problems, now seems to be the opportune time to heed the advice of some of our best minds canvassing for our return to the former regional system of government as envisaged by the founding fathers of our nation or devolve power to the present six geo-political zones”, he said.