There’s Hunger, But Only Lazy People Lack Food – Tinubu Campaign DG

The Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Abdulaziz Yari, has acknowledged starvation and financial hardship in Nigeria however mentioned people who find themselves not lazy ought to be capable to afford meals.

Yari made the comment throughout the APC presidential marketing campaign rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, the place he argued that the provision of meals gadgets in markets meant the nation was not essentially experiencing a scarcity of meals in a video in circulation.

The former Zamfara State governor, whereas addressing occasion supporters, questioned whether or not residents of Akwa Ibom had gone to markets with cash however returned with out meals as a result of the gadgets had been unavailable.

“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,” he mentioned.

Yari additional requested whether or not anybody within the state had skilled problem buying rice or different foodstuffs regardless of having cash.

“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 requested.

He maintained that the absence of meals gadgets in markets would quantity to starvation, arguing that their availability meant Nigerians may nonetheless entry meals if they’d the monetary means.

“If there’s no food in the market, that’s what we are calling hunger. But anyone who is not a lazy person, definitely he would have food on his table,” Yari mentioned.