Sultan Warns Buhari Over Hunger

By Fola James

More people have died of hunger in the last five years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III has said.

The administration claimed it has adopted serious measure to combat poverty and hunger in the country, obviously, these have failed to yield desired results, the respected leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria, SCIAN said.

This is not the first time the Sultan will carpet the administration for not doing enough to solve the problem of hunger in the country.

During a visit by former Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun to his palace few years ago, the leader of Nigerian Muslims, told her that poverty has become endemic in the northern part of the country.

My people are dying of hunger, the sultan told the former minister at the time.

While speaking in Abuja on Thursday during the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council meeting attended by the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, the monarch said hunger threatens the unity of Nigeria.

He spoke on the topic, ‘Together, we can grow peace for the Nation,’ the Sultan warned that “no individual or religion would be spared should the country be torn apart.”

The sultan stated that the biggest problems facing the country at this time is not corona virus.

“There is a very serious virus that is killing people much higher than coronavirus.

That virus is hunger; there is hunger virus and it’s very serious.

You need to go round the country into the villages, into the towns and see how people are really struggling to survive,” the Sultan said.