The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described reports that more than 17 million Nigerians, including infants and young children, are experiencing acute hunger as a growing humanitarian disaster caused by the President Bola Tinubu administration’s incompetence, misplaced priorities, and failed policies.
According to ADC spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi, Nigerians are dying from malnutrition under his rule.
He was responding to a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) research that showed more than 17 million Nigerians in nine conflict-affected northern states are facing acute famine.
A statement signed by Abdullahi condemned the Tinubu-led APC Federal Government for what it described as “cruel indifference” to the growing humanitarian crisis caused primarily by its failure to contain the banditry and terrorism that has displaced farming communities, as well as harsh economic policies that have pushed food beyond the reach of millions of Nigerians.
The complete statement reads as follows: “The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has received with profound concern the latest assessment by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which confirms that Nigeria is now facing one of its worst food security emergencies in almost a decade.”
“According to the WFP, more than 17 million Nigerians across nine conflict-affected northern states are now facing Crisis, Emergency or Catastrophic levels of food insecurity.”
“This is an increase of over two million individuals beyond prior predictions. More than three million people in Borno State are acutely food insecure, with the aggregate figure for Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe reaching 6.2 million.
“These aren’t opposition figures. These are not campaign slogans. These are the results of the world’s biggest humanitarian organization on hunger.
“In other words, the hunger that millions of Nigerians face today is not a natural disaster.” It is an APC-inspired government-caused humanitarian calamity.