Activist and politician Omoyele Sowore has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his recent remarks on hunger, accusing the administration of failing to tackle Nigeria’s worsening economic hardship.

Sowore’s criticism followed comments made by the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, where Tinubu said hunger had existed in Nigeria long before he was born. The President made the remarks while defending his administration’s economic policies, maintaining that many of the country’s current challenges were inherited. He also addressed Nigeria’s economic outlook, population growth and the impact of his administration’s ongoing reforms.

Responding in a post on his X account, Sowore argued that the purpose of seeking political office is to resolve longstanding national problems, not to justify their existence.

“This @officialABAT man is clueless. Did he campaign to perpetuate generational hunger or to end it?” Sowore wrote.

“If hunger existed before you were born @officialABAT wasn’t that exactly why you sought power, to end it?

“It has always been a known fact that you and your ilk sought power to perpetuate hunger. #TinubuMustGO #Sowore2027,” he added.