A former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, said Nigeria’s democracy was founded on a very turbulent and weak economic arrangement.
He said, “What we are practising here is fraud. A widow in a distant village, who is suffering, is blaming one man in Abuja, Buhari, but nobody blames the governor or the local government chairman.
“What we are seeing is the rise in the cost of food. We have reached a stage where farmers can’t even go to the farm and harvest their crops, because they have to pay bandits. And those bandits don’t see any connection between them and this country. They are so angry that for them, it is a state of anarchy.”
On his part, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, called on Nigerians to be part of politics and governance as the institutions were too important to be left to politicians alone.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar said the nation was facing real and existential threats never experienced before.
Atiku observed that as the 2023 elections were drawing closer, the political class and parties must begin the process of identifying a leader capable of finding solutions to the problems and uniting the people.
