Former presidential aspirant and convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, has tackled President Muhammadu Buhari after Nigeria took delivery of some medical and food supplies from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The UAE Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, had sent 14 tonnes of medical supplies and 20 tonnes of food supplies to Nigeria as COVID-19 palliatives.
The donation, which was announced on Twitter by the UAE government’s media office, arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday.
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Sowore, who is a fierce critic of Buhari, described the president as a failure for accepting the food donation after claiming that his administration had achieved food security.
He tweeted on Sunday, “Ghana is deporting Nigerians, failed @MBuhari is receiving food supplies from Dubai after touting self-sufficiency in Agriculture, didn’t Nigeria govt vuvuzelas claim Nigeria produces more rice than Thailand? #RevolutionNow, we must restore our dignity as a people!”
President Buhari had in August, 2019, directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop providing Foreign Exchange (forex) for the importation of food into the country, saying Nigeria had achieved “steady improvement in agricultural production, and attainment of full food security.”
In a statement issued by his senior media assistant, Garba Shehu, the president said forex should be used strictly for diversification of the economy and not for encouraging more dependence on foreign food.
“Don’t give a cent to anybody to import food into the country.
“We have achieved food security, and for physical security, we are not doing badly,’’ Shehu had quoted the president to have said in his hometown in Daura, Katsina State, during last year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration.
It is a common saying that elections in Nigeria had not be free and fair.The electorate will vote their minds.. The political actor.the INEC, the members of the forces will assist the politicians to change the results either at the collating center or beforehand
Even the courts are not helping the matter as to over_turn the outcome of the results to their favorite.All the Examples are very many in States and the Nation at large with the support of the Preside ncy back_up the urgely trends.When the president was vine for position in years back, people were pity him that his elections had been over turn, that he is there now,the situation had been worst than the past.rigging had become the other of the day.Nobody can exonerate EDO &ONDObl for fair and free elections as promised by mr President,he always says that but we will meet the other_wise.