Tinubu Has Abandoned Farmers To Import Food – Atiku

Former Vice President and ADC presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of presiding over a sharp reversal in Nigeria’s agricultural trade. He recently had his say via a press statement by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council.

Announcing that agricultural exports fell by 33.3 per cent in the first half of 2026, contributing to the N796.40 billion reversal from the corresponding period of 2025, Atiku stated that the figures are a troubling reflection of an economy in which farmers are struggling with insecurity and manufacturers are battling high production costs.

He added that Tinubu is to blame for allowing insecurity, the cost of moving farm produce and the burden of keeping processing plants running to further weaken production.

His words, “The excuse that Nigerians simply imported too much will not stand. Tinubu’s government must answer for the collapse in what Nigeria sold to the world.

The country is losing export earnings, and the President owes farmers, workers and businesses more than another speech about prosperity.

Farmers cannot cultivate promises. Manufacturers cannot power factories with speeches. Workers cannot feed their families on assurances that prosperity is coming.

We grow the crop. Someone else does more of the processing, builds a business around it and earns the larger return. Then Tinubu speaks of jobs while Nigerian factories struggle to compete. He has made production expensive and called the resulting hardship reform.

Local refining is about more than the price at the petrol pump. Aviation fuel affects fares. LPG affects the cost of cooking. Petroleum products and feedstocks affect industries and the people they employ.

Nigerians need practical relief they can actually access—not schemes whose costs and shortages put the promised benefits out of reach. The value of our resources must reach Nigerians beyond the refinery gate.

My administration will begin restoring a transparent production subsidy from Day One. We will back farmers and processors with the same determination. Grow it here. Process it here. Refine it here. Create the jobs here. Make life affordable here.

Tinubu’s record is becoming painfully clear: Nigeria supplies raw crops and crude oil while Nigerians pay dearly for finished goods. A government that cannot turn our resources into affordable products and decent jobs has failed the people it was elected to serve.”