A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alwan Hassan, has dismissed claims that Nigerians are hungry.
According to him, the opposition are exaggerating the economic crisis in the country for political purposes.
This is coming amid widespread concerns over the rising cost of living.
NEWSNGR reports that Hassan made this statement on Tuesday while fielding questions in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
He was responding to the opposition’s description of the 2027 political contest as a battle between President Bola Tinubu and hungry Nigerians.
“That is opposition rhetoric. People are not that hungry. They should stop lying.
“People are not that hungry the way the opposition is portraying it. And I’ll say it anywhere. People are not that hungry,” he stated.
According to him, the opposition is using hunger as a campaign tool to win sympathy, and not because the situation on the ground is as bad as they claim.
He further said that Nigerians are going about their normal businesses, insisting that they are going to markets and to work, living their lives, and that the picture being painted by the opposition does not reflect that reality.
His comment came days after the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Abdulaziz Yari, also dismissed cries of widespread hunger in the country.
