The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has blamed the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the state of poverty in the country.
According to the party’s Publicity Director, Bala Ibrahim, the PDP should be held responsible for plunging over 133 million Nigerians into poverty
Lagos Reporters that the APC chieftain noted that the surging poverty levels bedevilling Nigerians resulted from the PDP’s misrule of 16 years.
Ibrahim, made this assertion on Monday while featuring on the Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
The APC publicity director’s comments follow a revelation by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last week in one of its reports that 63% of Nigerians, which is equivalent to 133 million people are multidimensionally poor.
The NBS report indicated that 65% of the poor live in the north, while 35% live in the south.
He, however, advanced that what the APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari has done since its assumption of power is to provide succour to Nigerians
Ibrahim said the President Buhari-led administration is also doing everything in its power to uplift the standard of living in the country, as well as enable people to get to their places of ambition.
The APC chieftain further observed that the administration of President Buhari had produced many millionaire rice farmers since its inception in May 2015.
Ibrahim said, “I am happy the NBS did not say it is the APC that impoverished Nigerians.
“This poverty that has taken control of Nigeria is a result of the misrule of the PDP for 16 years. The APC, since it came into power, has been doing everything to uplift the standard of living, to take people to the place of their ambitions, and it promised to provide succour, and it is doing so.”