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A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has described President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast to Nigerians as “a pack of empty words and a time-wasting load of irrelevancies.” Effiong said the president’s speech is a confirmation of his long held view that Nigerians are dealing with “a fatalistic political class that is intentionally deaf and willfully blind to the sufferings and yearnings of the citizens.” The lawyer’s statement posted on his X handle on Sunday comes on the heels of Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast to Nigerians. The president in his address, the president ruled out the return o…