Lagos State Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, in this interview with OBIRE ONAKEMU, spoke on how the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government at the state and national levels prioritises their personal comforts to the detriment of the welfare of the people. He advised President Bola Tinubu to learn from the recent protest against hardship and bad governance in Nigeria.
Given the recent protest, what measures should be taken to alleviate suffering of the people?
In the last one year, more Nigerians have fallen into what has now been termed multidimensional poverty. The World Bank poverty clock, a tool used to track poverty progress worldwide, says 71 million Nigerians are extremely poor. Our National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has, however, classified 133 million Nigerians as multi-dimensionally poor. Many Nigerians wake up daily without knowing where their next meal will come from.
