•As Angry Responders Fault Claims on Food Crisis
By Halimah Olamide
A tweet by former aide to Vice President Atiku Abubakar and now loyalist of President Bola Tinubu, Daniel Bwalla has earned many knocks for comparing the Nigerian worsening food inflation to what obtains globally.
Bwalla, who recently switched from his vitriolic attacks on Tinubu to adulations of his policies and programs had taken to his X handle on Monday to remind Nigerians that the current rising cost of living is not peculiar to Nigeria but a thing of global dimension.
Food inflation is global ohh. This small bottle of palm oil (he posted a bottle oil) is sold for £20 pound sterling, I.e 38k naira.
“Hair cut na 45k for london. The good news is that it is projected that global food inflation will drop by the end of this year. So cheer up my people.
“For those Naija people in the US and UK cursing @officialABAT on social media, what they are not telling you is that im the UK they can’t wait to chase Rishi Sunak and in the US, you already know what’s up with Joe Biden.
“There is no perfect president or perfect democracy, let nobody fool you. forget the noise, your presidential candidate could have done worse
“President Tinubu is working hard to find solutions to our problems created over decades of Mal-administration
Let us have faith in our country and our leaders and offer solutions rather than insults,” Bwalla had tweeted
However hardly had Bwalla dropped his statement than angry responses trailed him challenging him why he cannot compare what obtains in other parts of the world to what is happening in Nigeria.
Many responders reminded Bwalla that the average take home of a Nigerian is nothing to write home about adding that what a Nigerian warns in a month is almost what a resident of the United Kingdom earns in 8 hours of a day.
A responder with the handle @Chinozo wrote “And in the same uk they earn £12 per hour
That’s 24,000 naira
In a day of 8- 9 hour work they can earn 192,000 naira..
There’s enough money to pay for this
So how many people earn this in a day in Nigeria
Since we are converting.”