Concern has been raised by Jesutega Onokpasa, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), about President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s “bizarre” level of complacency in the face of skyrocketing food costs.
Nigeria’s hunger situation is embarrassing, Onokpasa said in an interview with Arise News on Monday, particularly since the president had pledged to end hunger if elected.
“What Asiwaju promised us that if we help him get to power he is going to produce food massively to feed Nigerians.
“We didn’t envisage this bizarre level of comfortability with prices just skyrocketing out of control”, he said.
Onokpasa continued, “I don’t know what happened to Asiwaju, in fact I’m a catholic and I will book masses for him. Whatever is happening let God deliver him from it.
“How can you be a president and prices of food are skyrocketing? if we can’t reduce the price of fuel can’t we feed people?
“Why is Asiwaju so reluctant to invest in Agriculture, he asked. “Nigerians are hungry and it is shameful that President Tinubu seems detached from the reality of the people”.
