{"id":173183,"date":"2025-08-09T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T12:29:57","slug":"tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Battered While Governors Grow Wealthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani<\/p>\n<p>has suggested that the State Governors were not doing enough to ameliorate the sufferings of poor Nigerians amid the biting hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The former lawmaker claimed that President Bola Tinubu was being attacked and criticized for the sufferings of the people while governors were smiling to the banks.<\/p>\n<p>Sani\u2019s commentary comes amid widespread anger at skyrocketing fuel prices and economic hardship following the removal of the petroleum subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, while citizens continue to suffer from the steep surge in living costs, Tinubu is bearing the brunt of public criticism, and governors appear to be largely unaccountable and passive in response to citizens\u2019 distress.<\/p>\n<p>Sani\u2019s scathing post on X: \u201cThe Subsidy was removed.<\/p>\n<p>The People are bearing the brunt. The President is receiving the bashing. The Governors are receiving the alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani has suggested that the State Governors were not doing enough to ameliorate the sufferings of poor Nigerians amid the biting hardship in the country. The former lawmaker claimed that President Bola Tinubu was being attacked and criticized for the sufferings of the people while governors were smiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,195,945],"class_list":["post-173183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-shehu-sani","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu Battered While Governors Grow Wealthier - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani has suggested that the State Governors were not doing enough to ameliorate the suffe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu Battered While Governors Grow Wealthier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani has suggested that the State Governors were not doing enough to ameliorate the suffe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T11:11:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-09T12:29:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754730135.50272.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu Battered While Governors Grow Wealthier\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-09T11:11:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-09T12:29:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754730135.50272.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Shehu sani\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-battered-while-governors-grow-wealthier\",\"name\":\"Tinubu Battered While Governors Grow Wealthier - 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