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Farmers have called on the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to walk his campaign talk regarding the use of agriculture, specifically maize and cassava to drive national development.
The Secretary of the Directorate of Agro and Commodities of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) Retson Tedheke made the call with other farmers at a pre-inauguration geby the BATKASH National Farmers Forum at the Unity Fountain in Abuja to appreciate farmers for voting Tinubu/Shetimma at the last election.
“Farmers all over the country are here to celebrate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and to prepare for the inauguration on Monday. The BATKASH National Farmers’ Forum and Agro Commodities Directorate organized the programme.
“We want to prove that Agriculture is how we work and this is the Agbado revolution. This is the beginning of greatness for rural Nigeria and all Nigerian farmers.
“The reality is this: we should not expect miracles overnight but the farming community is going to feel this president very strongly because before he became president he spoke about how we can use Agbado and Cassava to solve our national crisis and that is a possibility because if we focus on maize if we focus on Cassava, Soya beans, Sesame, Poultry and livestock, we can become a nation of greatness. We can employ our people, develop our rural communities and then generate that revenue that we need to develop our country”.
A farmer from Yobe State, Sani Bulama, said Nigerian farmers are very expectant, having campaigned vigorously for Tinubu.
According to him: “There are a lot of expectations. We want him to support the farmers just as we campaigned and mobilized for him”, he stated.
Francis Oshayomi, a farmer from Ekiti State, urged Tinubu to make rural Nigeria more productive in concrete terms.
He said; “We are expecting the best from Asiwaju. We are expecting him to use agriculture to develop rural communities. Make rural Nigeria productive, using agriculture”. (Nation)
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