It Took The Emergence Of The Coalition For Tinubu To Announce Food Security Reforms – ADC

Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima

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.

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 added 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.

His words, “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.

“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.”

WOW.