Fawaz Adebisi
Senator Shehu Sani has lamented the current situation of the country, mocking the current administration, as over 130 million Nigerians are living in abject poverty in the country.
According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty, but instead, Over a 100 million Nigerians are in poverty.
This was after the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced, on Thursday, that the number of Nigerians living in poverty stands at over 133 million, representing 63 per cent of the nation’s population.
Recall that the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ms Kachollum Daju, had told newsmen in September that the Federal Government planned lifting was attainable, if stakeholders played their expected roles effectively.
In his reaction to the development, Sani via his Twitter handle said the government had officially threw 133 millions Nigerians into poverty circle.
He said “They promised to lift one hundred million people out of poverty; now they have officially thrown one hundred and thirty three million people into deeper poverty.”