By Abiola Olawale
The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has dropped a bombshell to say Nigerians should lower their expectations about the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying his principal can’t fix all the problems in 9 months.
This was as the minister said the persistent decline of the economy is a build-up of the previous administration, and only just exploded recently.
According to Umahi, the current hunger was a build-up of insecurity caused by the farmers-herders crisis during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Addressing journalists on Sunday at his Uburu country home in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, the minister said Nigerians should not expect Tinubu to fix the problem within nine months of assuming power.
In his words, “The present hunger that everybody is talking about, didn’t start today. It’s a build 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.
“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.”
