Northern Traditional Rulers Forum and the Nigerian Bar Association have called on the Federal Government to quickly address the hardship in the country precipitated by the fuel subsidy removal which had resulted in higher transport costs and food inflation.
The traditional rulers and the NBA made the call just as President Bola Tinubu is reportedly set to hold a closed-door meeting with state governors at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Thursday to proffer solutions to the economic crisis in the country.
“To me, this government is a continuation of the former government; it is the same party. So, what really is the problem? I think that is one of the reasons we are here to talk to ourselves,” Abubakar said.
The Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, who confirmed the planned meeting with the President, stated that the meeting with the governors would be held before the President’s departure to Ethiopia for the African Union meeting.
The Sultan, who is also the leader of Nigerian Muslims said there should be no pretense that all was well with the country as Nigerians were more than ever before agitated because “they are hungry and angry.”
The session is coming a few days after the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party compared Nigeria’s economic situation to that of Venezuela, a South American country in the throes of hyper-inflation, escalating starvation, disease, crime, and high mortality rates.
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