Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on the hunger in the land, rather than waste time chasing imaginary enemies.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cThe reality our President must face now is that there is too much hunger in the land, Nigerians are hungry, they are suffering<\/p>\n
Fayose urged the President tob listen to those who are more knowledgeable than him in terms of management of the country\u2019s economy instead of seeing them as threats.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ekiti state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to the cries of Nigerians and stop seeing those with opinions different from his own as threats to his hold on power,
\nThev governor said President Buhari should realise that \u201ca nation of hungry people is a nation of angry people\u201d and seek help from economic experts in the country, not minding their political, religious and ethnic affiliations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Governor Fayose, who particularly singled out the two former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governors; Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Prof. Charles Soludo, who spoke at different fora last week, said; \u201cInstead of adopting the usual style of trying to silence them with EFCC or ICPC, the President should listen to them and take their advice on board because they are expert in economic matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said; \u201cIt is no longer about politics. Rather, it is about preventing hunger from exterminating Nigerians and I am sure that the president himself knows that hunger does not understand political parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bag of rice that was less than N8,000 when President Buhari assumed office is now over N20,000! How can a civil servant that is earning N18, 000 minimum wage survive when his monthly salary cannot buy one
\nbag of rice?<\/p>\n
\u201cEven basic drugs and medicare are getting out the reach of the common people and the resultant effect of this will be avoidable deaths!<\/p>\n
\u201cAs at today, a bag of cement is N2, 200, increment of N600 on one bag in just one day. Within four months, exchange rate rose with more than 150 percent, with dollar that was a little above N200 then, now more than N400.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe harsh reality is that a Nigerian whose income was N100,000 per month in 2015 and still earning the same N100,000 now is actually earning less than N40,000 because what he could buy with N100,000 then cannot be bought with N200,000 now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the worst time for parents whose children and wards will be going back to school in September. How to pay school fees is causing depression for a lot of parents in just over a year of the Buhari\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these are signs that President Buhari needs help from those who can assist the country to avert this imminent economic collapse and he should not be ashamed to consult even those who ran the economy under the PDP government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan because it appears that things were better then than now.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, rather than preoccupying himself with newspaper cartoons, our President should listen to suggestions being offered by Nigerians on ways to bring the country\u2019s economy out of recession that it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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