“Don’t Blame Tinubu”: Igboho Explains to Sultan Why Economic Hardship Won’t Vanish Overnight

• Northern elders, leaders and traditional rulers have been urged to be patient with Tinubu's led federal government
• Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Igboho, made this call to the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, who earlier noted that Nigeria was sitting on a keg of gunpowder
• The Yoruba nation activist maintained that Tinubu's government should not be blamed for the current inflation and hardship because it was just 8-months old

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has over two years of experience covering political parties and movements.

Amid food inflation and economic hardship, the Yoruba nation activist Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has defended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government.

Igboho told the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, that the nation’s current challenges of insecurity and poverty could not be tackled overnight.

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Recall that on Wednesday, February 14, the Sultan, who is also chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council, said Nigeria was sitting on a keg of gunpowder.

The emir noted that the country was looking for trouble with a large number of unemployed youths without food.

He charged the federal government to take action in order to mitigate the suffering of the masses, who he said were hungry and angry about their condition.

Reacting in a personally signed statement, Adeyemo, on Thursday, February 15, contended that relevant stakeholders cannot help but agree that the country’s socioeconomic problems must be confronted and surmounted for Nigeria to achieve peace and development, Vanguard reported.

He noted that President Tinubu’s administration should be allowed to work out solutions capable of addressing the untold hardship occasioned by his economic policies.

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Premium Times reported that Adeyemo posited that the Sultan’s position on the current state of the nation was not out of place, but maintained that the blame should not be heaped on Tinubu’s administration, which was just about eight months old.

Tinubu disapproved food importation amid hardship

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that President Tinubu declared that he would not approve the importation of food or establish a price control board.

Tinubu said this on Thursday, February 15, during his meeting with the 36 state governors.

The meeting had in attendance Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), National Security Adviser (NSA), and the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja.

Source: Legit.ng