No Indication Tinubu’s Administration Can Curb Rising Hunger – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar expressed concern that President Bola Tinubu has been unable to alleviate the hunger crisis in the country.

Speaking via a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibe, on Monday, Atiku decried the high level of hunger among poor Nigerians.

He recalled how poverty and hunger caused revolutions in the Arab world, as well as in France and Russia.

‎Atiku argued that there are “no manifest signs that this government is capable of addressing the grim issue of severe hunger staring the poor in the face” after two years in power.

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‎Counselling that the current unacceptable situation offers an opportunity for reflection, Atiku cited the “French Revolution, the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Arab Spring in which a young man caught in the maelstrom of unbearable frustration set himself ablaze in a development which occasioned violent socio-political eruptions starting out from Tunisia to engulf the Middle-East and North Africa.”

He said, “There is no government worth its salt that does not place priority on the welfare and security of the people.”

He stressed further that since reforms are made for citizens and not the other way round, the reforms of this administration should have a human face.

“Whatever reform the Tinubu government might claim to be undertaking, the point remains that food insecurity is a daily occurrence nationwide.”