…Says Nigerians are still multidimensionally poor…Faults subsidy removal, says policy deepened hardship
By Juliet Umeh
Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has urged the Federal Government to stop relying on rising revenue and other macroeconomic figures to justify its economic reforms, saying such statistics have yet to translate into improved living conditions for Nigerians.
Sowore, who spoke during an interview on Arise Television, argued that the real test of the administration’s economic policies should be their impact on the standard of living, businesses, employment, education, security and wages.
He said Nigerians should not be told that the economy was improving simply because government revenue, tax collection or the tax-to-GDP ratio had increased.
