Anger Glaring In Their Faces – Says Tinubu During Meeting With Farmers Association

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has sympathized with farmers across Nigerian.

The former governor of Lagos State, when he received farmers from the six geo-political zones of the country at his campaign office in Abuja, yesterday, said the future belongs to the peasant farmers, hence it is paramount to invest much into the agricultural sector, Naija News reports.

If elected to be Nigeria’s next president, Tinubu promised that his administration will be committed to improving the agricultural value chain.

Nigeria according to the presidential hopeful, holds the key to global food security.

Speaking on behalf of Tinubu who later left his party’s campaign office for an emergency engagement, APC‘s Vice Presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, said there were already strategic plans in the roadmap of the ‘incoming administration’ to fortify the nation’s agricultural sector through the adoption of intermediate partnerships and enhanced agriculture practices that would guarantee increase yields and better job opportunities for the youths.

Addressing other groups of farmers who came under the umbrella of the Asiwaju Farmers Forum, Shettima sympathized with the farmers over the poor outputs they had suffered which resulted in a huge annual loss as against the bumper harvests their counterparts in other parts of the world get.

According to him, there were also plans to address marketing constraints to promote exports of agro products from Nigeria to parts of Europe.

He said: “The incoming Tinubu administration will invest massively in the entire agriculture value chain. The whole mantra is on increase in yield.

“We cannot achieve that without embracing or adopting intermediate and enhanced agriculture practice. 

“I want to assure you on behalf of our principal, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that we will align with you.

“The future belongs to you. The trajectory of global food security is in Africa and it is Nigeria that will make or mar that trajectory. The future of Africa, I mean that of the black race, rest on the people of this country. By 2050, Nigeria would be the third most populous nation on earth, with a population of over 400 million people. We have the window of transforming the anticipated demographic trajectory into demographic dividends or it would be a demographic disaster that will consume all of us.”

Anger Is Glaring In The Face Of The Common Man

Shettima pledged on behalf of Tinubu that his administration will work earnestly for the farmers.

He said: “The future belongs to you. Go to the interior of the slums and meet with the common man, anger is glaring in their faces.

“We need to work as a people, as a family for the good of our people. We have a problem of poverty and inequality in Nigeria and Nigeria has no reason to be poor because ours is one the big oil and gas nation blessed with tremendous arable land with tremendous solid minerals buried under the soil.”

“Not only tin and columbite in Plateau and in Nasarawa where you are tilling the soil, but they also have plenty of mineral resources too. Most importantly, we have the human resources, we have the market to sell our products,” Shettima added.

The APC presidential hopeful admonished Nigerians to look beyond statistics constantly being presented to the public by the opposition political parties, and vote for people with proven records.

He said: “This is why next year’s election will be different from all other elections. We have to emphasise competence, and capability, much more than any other yardstick.

“We will work for the enthronement of enduring peace in this country. Most importantly, our focus will be on grassroots social economy empowerment programme with agriculture as the centrepiece.

“So we need to work on the people and there is no other better person with the skills to transform this nation greater than Asiwaju.”