Former governor of Anambra Shape and 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Birthday party, Peter Obi, has mentioned Nigeria is in a emergency with 38 million public at the verge of closing starvation.
Obi berated the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress management for attractive in wasteful spending which, consistent with him, had additional worsened the residing statuses of Nigerians.
He indexed one of the vital wasteful spending of presidency as the acquisition of a untouched presidential jet at $100m, N21bn for the renovation of the vice chairman’s hotel, and N15bn for the development of the Nationwide Meeting hospital.
“You cannot ask people to fast while you are feasting”, Obi added.
Obi, who spoke throughout an interview with Information Central TV, mentioned the Federal Executive will have to significance its incline sources to deal with problems in key construction subjects comparable to fitness, training, poverty alleviation, and safety.
“From all records, Nigeria has 38 million people on the verge of extreme hunger; we are the poverty capital of the world. The two most critical areas that are giving us the crisis are human insecurity and food insecurity. To deal with this, we need to invest in agriculture to solve hunger, unemployment, and inflation,” Obi mentioned.
He hinted at the opportunity of a merger with alternative opposition events to salvage Nigerians from starvation and frequent lack of confidence forward of the 2027 presidential election.
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