Nigeria's Tinubu Government Blamed for 17 Million Facing Hunger, ADC Says

A United Nations World Food Programme report found that more than 17 million people across nine conflict‑affected northern states are experiencing crisis, emergency or catastrophic levels of food insecurity. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of creating the humanitarian disaster, citing failed economic policies, worsening insecurity, attacks on farming communities, mass displacement, limited humanitarian access and rising food prices. The party highlighted that over three million people are affected in Borno State alone and that combined figures for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe total 6.2 million.

The ADC argued that the government’s inability to secure farming areas, curb banditry and terrorism, and address the cost‑of‑living crisis has driven the hunger surge. It pledged that an ADC‑led government would make food security a permanent agenda of the National Security Council, invest in smallholder farmers through mechanisation, improved inputs and irrigation (including rehabilitation of 264 abandoned dams), and develop aggregation centres, cold‑chain facilities and strategic grain reserves. The party quoted the WFP finding, saying, “The WFP has now confirmed what millions of Nigerians already know… hunger is spreading, insecurity is winning and this government has no plan.”