The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Industry, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has called on Nigerians to return to farming and produce food in large quantities as a way to reduce the hunger currently affecting the country.
Fadahunsi, who represents Osun East Senatorial District in Osun State, made the remarks while speaking with journalists in Ilase-Ijesa, Osun State, on Tuesday.
The lawmaker commended President Bola Tinubu for heeding advice on strategies to alleviate poverty and predicted that Nigerians would experience relief from hunger before the end of the year.
“I am farming. Everybody should farm. If there is no hunger, automatically, we will be thinking right. The development is coming. What I have seen in the National Assemblies is real, and so on.
“Automatically, before the end of this year, things will go down. Just recently, when we went for the NEC meeting, President Tinubu advised the governors to go deep into the local areas and invest more.
“That’s an executive order, and I am very sure any Governor that does not do that will lose his credibility because of the quantum of money being allocated to them,” Fadahunsi said.
He urged all eligible voters without a Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to take part in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration, noting that he has personally been involved in mobilising citizens for the exercise.
He said, “I have personally gone around to ensure that stakeholders who will facilitate the process are actively on board. Particularly, reaching the Kings, custodians of cultural heritage, and community leaders.
“We are urging people in the community to register. Including the longtime settlers in our environment, the Hausa farmers, Fulani herdsmen, and the Igedes. They all must register and get a PVC.”
