The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of worsening Nigeria’s food crisis, alleging that millions of Nigerians are facing hunger due to what it described as government failures and poor policies.
ADC spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the accusation while reacting to a report by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which indicated that more than 17 million Nigerians across nine conflict-affected northern states are facing acute food insecurity.
Abdullahi said Nigerians were “dying of starvation” under the current administration, blaming insecurity, economic hardship and rising food prices for the worsening humanitarian situation.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the opposition party described the situation as a “humanitarian disaster” allegedly caused by the Federal Government’s inability to tackle banditry and terrorism, which has displaced farming communities and reduced agricultural production.
“The African Democratic Congress has received with profound concern the latest assessment by the United Nations World Food Programme, which confirms that Nigeria is now facing one of its worst food security emergencies in almost a decade,” the statement read.
According to the party, the WFP report showed that over 17 million Nigerians in northern states were experiencing crisis, emergency or catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
The ADC further stated that Borno State alone had more than three million people facing acute hunger, while the combined figure for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states had risen to 6.2 million.
The party argued that the figures were not political claims but findings from a global humanitarian organisation focused on hunger and food security.
“It is not a natural disaster. It is a government-created humanitarian disaster,” the ADC alleged, accusing the Tinubu administration of failing to secure lives, protect farmers and address the rising cost of living.
The party also criticised the government’s repeated assurances that economic difficulties were temporary, saying the WFP report had confirmed Nigerians’ concerns about insecurity, declining agricultural output, rising food inflation and worsening hardship.
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