The report, similar in every respect to what other media reported, went on to say that “President Tinubu gave all the state governors seven days to provide concrete feedback on their plans to rev up food production in their respective states.” That was at the 142nd National Economic Council, NEC, meeting, which was attended by state governors and some deputies at the State House Abuja the day before.
What have these examples got to do with Soludo? Here is what. President Tinubu had called a meeting of Governors to announce major economic initiatives designed to improve the Nigerian economy in distress. With all due respects to Tinubu, the most qualified person to lead the meeting was Soludo. It is not clear if he was given the chance to make an input.
The first observation concerns the use of the word “palliative” once again. This is the second time that the Tinubu government would roll out palliatives to reduce the economic stress Third, the amounts promised to 100,000 families in each state, as well as the FCT, apart from being unfair to the states with large populations, for three months only, will not solve the problem of pervasive poverty permanently. It might not even solve it for the three months because helping 3.