Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly condemned the Bola Tinubu administration’s approach to addressing food insecurity, describing the recent distribution of rice and palliatives as mere political optics rather than genuine governance.
In a statement released on Workers’ Day by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku described the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s flag-off of 100 trucks of rice and N1.2 billion in palliatives to northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as a “calculated political performance staged on the altar of mass hardship.”
Atiku argued that the spectacle highlights the “tragic normalization of poverty” under the current administration. He pointed to skyrocketing inflation, collapsing household incomes, and millions being pushed into extreme deprivation, saying families can no longer afford basic meals.
“Instead of addressing the structural causes of this crisis, the government has chosen the path of optics distributing food in carefully choreographed ceremonies while the underlying suffering deepens,” the statement quoted Atiku as saying.
The former Vice President linked the food shortages partly to policy failures since 2023, including insecurity that has displaced farmers and abandoned vast agricultural lands in the North, leading to declining productivity and weakened food supply chains.
He further accused the government of exploiting the resulting hardship for political gain, turning food distribution into a “campaign tool.”
Atiku contrasted this with what he believes the North truly needs: sustainable food security policies, not “campaign lunch packs wrapped in party insignia.
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