Abdulaziz Yari, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has asserted that Nigerians who are industrious will always have food on their tables, arguing that food items remain readily available in markets despite widespread economic hardship.
Speaking on Friday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, the former Zamfara governor and serving senator contended that true hunger exists only when markets are entirely devoid of commodities. He challenged residents to state whether they had ever visited local markets with money only to find essential provisions like rice missing.
“Just as I said, we have hunger. Let me ask a question here. Akwa Ibom people, from where I came from, we have food in the market,” Yari stated.
“I don’t know, in Akwa Ibom, is there any person who took his money to the market and found out there’s no rice? You didn’t answer me. Is there anybody with money in his pocket who goes to the market to get foodstuffs and says that there’s no foodstuffs in the market?”
He maintained that the physical presence of goods signifies that scarcity is not the core issue.
“If there’s no food in the market, that’s what we are calling hunger. But anyone who is not a lazy person, definitely would have food on his table.”
Earlier on Thursday in Ekiti, Yari challenged opposition parties to explicitly outline how their proposed policies would differ from those of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Defending the federal government’s economic trajectory, Yari pointed to what he characterized as a downward trend in food prices. He urged the electorate to grant Tinubu a second term, insisting that the administration’s performance must serve as the foundation for the APC’s electoral campaign.
“As we promised Nigerians, we are going to campaign with our numbers, with what we have done for Nigerians. Based on that, Nigerians, we requested them to give us a second chance,” he said.
Yari added that the ruling party remains fully prepared to defend its scorecard while urging political opponents to present viable alternative proposals to the public.
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