ABUJA – Minister of Works, David Umahi, on Sunday, March 3, said the people of southwest have no reason to join other regions of the country to protest against President Bola Tinubu over the rising cost of living in the country.
Umahi said the President has resolved the incessant farmers/herders clashes in the zone that that contributed to the insecurity in the area and affected food production and caused hunger in the land during the clashes.
The minister stated this in his Uburu hometown, Ohaozara local government area of Ebonyi state while interacting with journalists.
He noted that the high cost of living in the country was the cumulative effect of past administrations that President Tinubu has started solving through various policies and programs.
He averred that Tinubu administration favored southeast greatly through appointment of sons and daughters of the zone in positions of authority including appointing the first Minister of Works of southeast extraction.
Umahi explained that the administration has been doing many projects in the region and that with all these, southwest have no moral justification to join those protesting against the President over the hardship in the country.
He called on the people of the zone not to be lured by any group or region and join protest against the President.
The former governor of Ebonyi state described the NLC protest last week as unhealthy and unreasonable and urged the people of the country to be patriotic.
“The present hunger that everybody is talking about, didn’t start today. It’s a 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.
“At a time, I was the chairman of NEC committee on resolving farmers/herders clashes. So, I went through a number of states especially the Northern States settling the farmers/herders clashes and it yielded a number of fruits.
“That problem dealt a lot of blow to food production. The issue of kidnapping, the issue of insecurity, prevented farmers from going to their farms because here, we are talking about hunger.
