Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, Nigeria’s Minister of Interior and Tinubu’s henchman has agreed that people are hungry in Nigeria but disagrees with the fact that there’s mass poverty in the country.
The Minister Admitted that people are hungry in Nigeria while responding to questions last night on Channels Television program ‘’Sunday Politics’’.
Responding to questions with statistical facts about the multidimensional poverty faced by the vast majority of Nigerians who cannot feed themselves with a dollar per day Tunji-Ojo said ‘’that people are hungry? Yes of course. Mass poverty, well poverty is a relative word’’.
He opined that the Tinubu-led government is capable of meeting the demands of Nigerians saying ‘’Economy is not built in the night, it is easier for things to be destroyed than to be built. The fact remains, what you see today is an accumulated mismanagement over the last hundred, sixty, thirty, twenty years.’’
The minister said there are key fundamental decisions that need to be taken and expressed optimism that President Tinubu and his cabinet members are capable of undertaking the task of taking Nigeria through what he called a surgical process that will lead to economic wellness.
He said it is unfair for Nigerians to judge Tinubu’s government which is barely a year old with a cabinet that is eleven months old over a scenario of more than sixty years.
The minister pleaded that Nigerians should give President Tinubu more time to unfold his master plan ‘’we are on the right track, it’s just a matter of time. Seeds germinate but a seed must decay before it geminates, this is a moment of pain, we have planted the seed and eleven months period, one year is not a time…’’