The African Democratic Congress has said that President Bola Tinubu’s food security reforms are out of fear.
The party recently shared that Tinubu is reacting to the emergence of the opposition coalition instead of genuine concern for Nigerians.
Speaking via a press statement, ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, revealed that the rising strength of a united opposition has forced the government to do its job.
According to him, the coalition party is wondering why it took its emergence to make the Tinubu administration start thinking of how to make food available to Nigerians who have kept complaining about hunger since he became president.
He stated that if not for the pressure the ADC mounted on the government with the successful unveiling of the opposition coalition last week, Tinubu would’ve kept ignoring the pain of the people.
“On Saturday, when Bayo Onanuga tweeted before the world that, moving forward, all bottlenecks hindering the realisation of the Tinubu administration’s potential would be removed to enable food sovereignty and export, he didn’t just issue a statement, he issued a confession.
A confession that this government had, by design, been sitting on its hands while Nigerians starved. Now, under mounting political pressure, they want applause for doing the bare minimum?
This is not reform. This is not leadership. This is a scramble for survival by an administration that has been cornered by its own failures.
Let us make one thing clear, it took the emergence of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the growing momentum of a united opposition to push this government into action.
It wasn’t the hunger of hundreds of millions of Nigerians that moved them, it was fear. Fear of the 2027 elections,” he said.
Bolaji further questioned why the previous policies were maintained while millions of Nigerians lamented and businesses got shut down.
He concluded by saying that the APC has been deliberately weaponising poverty for years, and the recent reaction is only out of fear that the citizens have woken up to the party’s heartlessness.
“Fear that Nigerians have woken up. Fear that, with a united opposition, 2027 will be a clearcut election between the APC and the Nigerian people.
Make no mistake, the APC has been deliberately weaponising poverty. After Bayo Onanuga’s statement that they would no longer delay in removing bottlenecks that had hindered food security, the only conclusion possible from that statement is that the government had deliberately sat on its hands and watched Nigerians starve in the last two years,” he added.
