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Pervasive hunger, poverty in Nigeria unacceptable – Atiku

Mohammed Koi by Mohammed Koi
September 15, 2025
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has decried what he described as “increasing spate of hunger currently ravaging the country, especially the underprivileged poor and down-trodden”.

Atiku made the remarks in a statement by his Media Aide, Paul Ibe that “whereas the primary objective of  any government is the security and welfare of its citizens, the masses of Nigerians are progressively wallowing in misery and poverty under the watch of the Tinubu-led APC administration”.

According to Atiku, the current situation does not give cause for cheers as it engenders an increasingly progressive propensity for criminalities in form of high-wire fraud, terrorism, kidnapping, cultism, drug addiction and ritual sacrifice, among others. 

The Waziri Adamawa recalls that “the most violent socio-political eruptions and revolutions all over the world had often been powered by pervasive hunger and unbearable material conditions – especially the paradox of squalor amidst plenty in our land”.

Counselling that “the current unacceptable situation offers an opportunity for reflection”, the former Vice-President cited the French Revolution, the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Arab Spring in which a young man caught in the maelstrom of unbearable frustration set himself ablaze in a development which occasioned violent socio-political eruptions starting out from Tunisia to engulf the Middle-East and North Africa.

“Back home here in Nigeria, it may not be out of place to argue that even the  ‘ENDSARS’ protest was fuelled by the traumatising  frustration of hunger and  insensitivity on the part of the government,” he said.

He also lamented that two years after assuming the reins of government, there are still no manifest signs that this government is capable of addressing the grim issue of severe hunger staring the poor in the face.

“Whatever reform the Tinubu government might claim to be undertaking, the point remains that food insecurity is a daily occurrence nationwide. 

“There is no government worth its salt that does not  place priority on the welfare and security of the people,” he stressed.

Atiku further said that since reforms are made for citizens and not the other way round, the reforms of this administration should have a human face.

“Whether the present powers accept it or not, the reality of our existence is that the poor are increasingly dying of hunger while the majority of the living poor exists at the mercy of the ill-advised policies of this government,” he added.

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