The African Democratic Congress has urged President Bola Tinubu to either abandon his current economic policies or resign from office, arguing that worsening poverty and hunger under his administration have become sufficient grounds for such action.
The opposition party said the latest poverty and food security figures released by international development agencies showed that the administration’s economic reforms had failed to improve the welfare of ordinary Nigerians despite repeated claims of macroeconomic progress.
In a statement issued on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said reports indicating that 139 million Nigerians now live below the national poverty line and that millions more face acute hunger reflected the human cost of the Federal Government’s economic policies.
“The evidence of 139m people living in poverty and 17m at the risk of starvation is President Tinubu’s scorecard.
“On account of this catastrophic failure alone, President Tinubu should be contemplating resigning from office rather than seeking re-election,” the statement read in part.
