The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, said that President Bola Tinubu cannot fix hunger and insecurity challenges within his nine months in office.
He insisted that the current hardship and insecurity the country is facing is a compilation from the past administration.
Umahi stated this in an interview with some journalists at his country home, Uburu, on Sunday where he appealed to Nigerians to still give the present government time to address all the inherited issues affecting the country.
He linked the current food crisis to the herders/farmers clash in former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
According to Umahi, “The present hunger that everybody is talking about, didn’t start today. It’s built up to a number of factors.
“Before the past administration and present administration, we have been having a build-up of insecurity, we had farmers/herders clashes over a number of years at a long period of time.”
He continued, “That problem dealt a lot of blow to food production. The issue of kidnapping, and the issue of insecurity, prevented farmers from going to their farms because here, we are talking about hunger.
“And so, you expect the administration of President Tinubu to fix all those things within nine months, it’s not possible. So, it’s a cumulative effect of the past like I have mentioned. We should be asking ourselves, how do we solve these problems and that’s what the President has started doing. When something has gotten to climax, you don’t expect to dissolve it overnight.”