The National Chairman of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP), Mallam Falalu Bello, has taken a swipe at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, urging him to heed the cries of hungry Nigerians rather than bask in political endorsements.

Bello, in a strongly worded statement personally signed over the weekend and made available to journalists in Abuja, warned that no amount of choreographed endorsement can muffle the suffering of ordinary Nigerians grappling with hardship.

“Tinubu’s political machinery and stage-managed endorsements may appear intimidating, but they cannot silence the desperate cries of a nation in pain,” Bello said.

According to him, “The people’s disillusionment is palpable. When citizens begin to whisper, ‘This is not what we voted for,’ it signals a deep rupture between leadership and the governed.”

He described the recent wave of endorsements for Tinubu’s second term by the APC as “a desperate bid to consolidate power through theatrics rather than delivering true democratic dividends.”

Bello stressed that democracy is not sustained by endorsements but by the delivery of real, tangible improvements in the lives of citizens. “Any attempt to trivialize the core principles of democracy with desperation is bound to fail,” he added.

His comments come in the wake of endorsements of President Tinubu’s second term bid by the Progressive Governors’ Forum and the National Assembly during the APC National Summit last Thursday.

Bello accused the ruling party of trying to cling to power by orchestrated means, not the genuine will of the people. He warned that no political machinery, no matter how formidable, can survive without the people’s trust.