“Anyone who is not lazy would have food on his table, says APC campaign boss Yari

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"If there's no food in the market, that's what we are calling hunger. But anyone who is not a lazy person, definitely would have food ...

Abdulaziz Yari, Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has asserted that Nigerians who are industrious will always have food on their tables, arguing that food items remain readily available in markets despite widespread economic hardship.

Speaking on Friday at the APC presidential campaign rally in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, the former Zamfara governor and serving senator contended that true hunger exists only when markets are entirely devoid of commodities. He challenged residents to state whether they had ever visited local markets with money only to find essential provisions like rice missing.

“Just as I said, we have hunger. Let me ask a question here. Akwa Ibom people, from where I came from, we have food in the market,” Yari stated.

“I don’t know, in Akwa Ibom, is there any person who took his money to the market and found out…

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