Governor of Niger state, Mohammed Umar Bago has backed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 polls, Peter Obi’s stance that it was shameful for Nigeria to receive food donations from war-torn Ukraine.
Governor Bago, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said this on Tuesday at the Leadership Award ceremony held at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, where he and Obi were awardees.
The governor, speaking in a video said, “My boss, you are very right on what you’ve said. We have no reason to be poor. People may not like you, but they must hear you. What you say is the gospel truth.”
Backing Obi’s stance, Governor Bago said that “It is time we tell ourselves the basic truth. We need to feed ourselves. It is a shame for people like Ukraine in war to be giving us food.”
The governor added that “Nigeria needs to be productive. You cannot be out of poverty unless you start to produce. I’m not an advocate of handouts and palliative. I don’t believe in it.”
Peter Obi had earlier lambasted the Nigerian government over the donation of 25,000 metric tonnes of wheat by war-torn Ukraine.
