The Federal Government has pushed back at claim that the widespread hardship resulting from economic policies of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration is the genesis of struggle for handouts that led to deaths of scores of people at charity events.
Thirty-five children died in Ibadan, 29 in Okija, Anambra State while 10 met their deaths in similar version in Abuja, all within four days.
It sparked report that untold hardship imposed by Tinubu’s policies is either directly or remotely linked to the incidents with opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying: ‘’The PDP is devastated that the APC-led administration has wrecked our once thriving economy and pushed millions of Nigerians deeper into abject poverty and hunger with many citizens, not being able to afford their daily meals, now resorting to suicide and desperate measures including slavery mission abroad and fighting for crumbs for survival.
“It is heart-breaking that despite our abundant resources as a nation, Nigerians have been subjected to agonising life where they die struggling for food.
“This horrifying situation in the country further confirms the APC as a party of “political vampires and buccaneers” who have no iota of regard for human life but rather derive pleasure in the suffering and death of citizens including innocent children.
“Only this explains why the APC administration continues in arrogant false performance claims including empty assurances of food sufficiency while deliberately failing to make the required investments to boost the productive sector, particularly in agriculture and food production.’’
However, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris in a statement he released dismissed the charge.
He wrote: “It is worth noting that similar unfortunate occurrences have been recorded in the past, before the current administration, as such, making any attempt to link these tragedies to the President’s reforms is unfounded and disingenuous.”
