The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has called for a review of the 2024 budget, News About Nigeria reports.
He made this appeal in a statement via his verified X handle on Monday, asking that the government prioritise offering lasting solutions to the nation’s deteriorating security situation, widespread poverty, food insecurity, and crumbling infrastructure.
He noted that his appeal is following the controversies that have followed the 2024 budget and its allocation of resources.
Obi maintained that the Executive and Legislative arms should initiate an immediate review of the budget as it is still in the early days of implementation in order to enable them to urgently transfer resources to critical areas.
According to him, there is a need to allocate adequate funding to critical sectors such as security, poverty alleviation, food security, and power supply.
“The nation’s resources should adequately be appropriated to critical areas like security, fighting poverty and solving the challenges of hunger and food insecurity, power supply, especially considering the difficult times that we are in.
“We have become one of the hungriest nations in the world and one of the most difficult nations in the world to live in, with food prices constantly going out of the reach of most Nigerians. Power supply is abysmally poor, and Nigerians are now mostly in total darkness, as over 60% are without power supply,” he stated.
He further noted that the country now holds the enviable position of having the highest number of out-of-school children, with about 20 million out-of-school children, stating that the children need to be taken off the streets and given access to basic education.
