Founding national secretary of Alliance for Democracy, Prof Udenta Udenta, has urged President Bola Tinubu to dump the ideas being imposed on his administration by the International Monetary Fund in order to pull Nigeria out of its current economic challenges.

Udenta gave this advice while speaking on the first anniversary of President Tinubu’s administration on Channels Television’s political programme, Sunday Politics.

c“There is no help coming from IMF or Washington Consensus. They want to beat the state down, they want the state to keep coming back to them so that they can impose their structural adjustment programmes,” he warned.

The former AD national secretary said though the government had fallen into the IMF trap, it could still wriggle out of it.

He advised that the government should balance liberalism, and privatisation with the socialist function of government.

Udenta also urged President Tinubu to form a government of unity and seek help from his political opponents to move the country forward.

Asked to advise the president on the way forward, Udenta said Tinubu should seek help.

“There is nothing shameful about looking for help. The country is in trauma, the nation is in distress. That means his presidency is in trouble. The first help will come from his political opponents,” he said.

The ex-AD national secretary noted that Tinubu is not so popular, stressing that he didn’t win up to 40 per cent of votes from a very small segment of Nigerians who voted during the last presidential election.

Udenta also said when Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar’s supporters noticed the President was consulting their political leaders, they might start supporting his policies and give him the needed time to turn things around.