'Nigerians not that hungry' – APC chieftain claims

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alwan Hassan, has blasted the opposition, urging it to cease mendacity that Nigerians are hungry.

Hassan made this assertion on Tuesday whereas fielding questions in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. This is coming amid widespread issues over the rising price of residing.

He was responding to the opposition’s description of the 2027 political contest as a battle between President Bola Tinubu and hungry Nigerians.

The APC chieftain dismissed the outline as opposition rhetoric, insisting that the scenario is being exaggerated for political functions.

“That is opposition rhetoric. People are not that hungry. They should stop lying.

“People aren’t that hungry the best way the opposition is portraying it. And I’ll say it wherever. People aren’t that hungry,” he stated.

According to him, the opposition is using hunger as a campaign tool to win sympathy, and not because the situation on the ground is as bad as they claim.

He further said that Nigerians are going about their normal businesses, insisting that they are going to markets and to work, living their lives, and that the picture being painted by the opposition does not reflect that reality.

His comment came days after the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Abdulaziz Yari, also dismissed cries of widespread hunger in the country.