Some ministers on Tuesday in Abuja appealed to Nigerians to exercise more patience, saying President Muhammadu Buhari was aware of hunger in the country.
They said the President and the Federal Government were working hard to alleviate their suffering.
The ministers spoke at the Special Edition of a Town Hall Meeting series dedicated to the youths.
The event was held at the Presidential Villa.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, hosted the event.
Also at the programme were the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola(SAN); Mrs. Kemi Adeosun (Finance) ; Chief Audu Ogbeh (Agriculture); Labour and Employment, (Dr. Chris Ngige); Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; and the Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung.
The ministers were responding to complaints by some members of the audience, who accused them (the ministers) of change in their lifestyles since they assumed office.
The youths insisted that the ministers must carry their message of hunger to the President.
Clapping as the questions were being thrown at the ministers, the youths said President Buhari and members of his cabinet must work to lift the country out of the woods.
One of the youths from Kuje Area Council, said he would have preferred to send the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, to his principal about the level of hunger in the nation.
He, however, asked the ministers to take the message to the President.
He also asked them to know that the youths were waiting for the President and his team in 2019 when another election would be due.
The youth from Kuje asked, “I don’t know if the S.A on Media to the President is here. I would have loved to send him to the President. But honourable ministers, help us tell the President that we are hungry. Nigerians are very hungry.
“ If he has changed from his promises during the campaign, we are also waiting for him in 2019.”
While asking each of the ministers to answer questions directed at them, Mohammed said he was not going to come to the aid of any of them.
“Every minister would bear his own cross. I don’t have to repeat the questions,” the minister said.
But he said the present government was not responsible for the hunger in the country.
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