All People’s Congress (APC) chieftain and former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu has instructed Nigerians to put more efficacy in farming, rather than fighting.
He said this during the 23rd to 25th convocation ceremonies of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, where he received a honorary doctorate from the university Senate and Governing Council.
Tinubu stated the importance of Agriculture especially now that inflation has taken over the nation and prices of food stuffs have gone high.
He admonished Nigerians of “terrible people and strong forces” that wants “to break Nigeria’s appointment with its greater destiny”, “unleashing terror and violent criminality against us”, and who “seek not only to ravage the agricultural community but to visit misery on the rest of the nation through food scarcity and food costs that poor people can simply not afford.
“These mean forces”, he says, “seek to impose a food production and distribution crisis on us by disrupting strategically important agricultural areas and activities.”
The former Governor pointed according to Punchng that “We must decide whether to give the truest meaning to our national motto “peace and unity” or we allow the agents of destruction and merchants of violence to have their way with us”, and “whether our farmland and grazing areas are to be battlegrounds, or they are to return to their role of feeding the nation.”
He then advocated for an effective Agricultural strategies and programmes by both the federal, state and Local governments to encourage food production and what he called the concept of “agricultural sustainability”, that the government should initiate systems of mechanized farming which will advance food security and “tame food scarcity and price inflation in the short run.”
