The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has criticized Governor Seyi Makinde for his alleged failure to implement concrete actions to boost agriculture and other key sectors, leading to food crisis and high unemployment.
The party dismissed Makinde’s claim of lifting 20,000 households out of poverty as a barefaced lie and accused him of using the media to misleadingly promote his administration’s achievements.
Despite Oyo State’s large land mass, the government has failed to make significant contributions to food security or agricultural development, the APC said.
The party cited the unused N7.6 billion loan from 2019 intended for farm settlements in Akufo and Eruwa as an example of the administration’s ineffectiveness.
Experts warn that the country’s food crisis and inflation will worsen unless the government prioritizes agriculture, environment, and security.
The APC called out Governor Makinde’s lack of tangible achievements in these areas, saying his administration’s neglect will hinder Nigeria’s ability to feed its citizens in the future, according to Independent.
In a statement issued on Thursday and made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, Oyo APC posited the claim by Gov. Makinde, as contained in his recent statewide broadcast, that his government had lifted 20,000 household from poverty was not only a barefaced lie but a futile attempt to mislead the whole world when the facts available to the general public indicate that the Sustainable Actions for Economic Recovery was another conduit designed to hoodwink the people of the state.
“It is obvious that with a Governor like Engr. Seyi Makinde, whose only interventions in agriculture and other key sectors of the economy, could only be felt in the media space, Nigeria would need a miracle to be able to feed its citizens in the nearest future because in the last five years of the PDP administration, the state government cannot bring out a single visible achievement which has a direct effect on food security or promotion of agriculture.
“Oyo has the largest land mass in the whole of southern Nigeria but we cannot boast of being the largest producer of a single farm produce or livestock. Yet, the state government is always in the media space misleading the public with fake stories of interventions, policies and programmes in the agricultural sector. Gov. Makinde got a loan of N7. 6billion in 2019 ostensibly to revamp the Farm Settlements in Akufo and Eruwa but up till now, nothing has happened in those facilities.”
