Minister of States for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) has tried to ensure the prices of food items do not go beyond what it is now.

The legal practitioner said Buhari and the APC must not be judged by the sharp increase in prices of food and other commodities.

Keyamo insisted that it would be a lazy way to campaign if the opposition parties tried to judge the APC government by comparing the prices of food items in 2022 and what they used to be seven years ago when the APC took over.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Keyamo maintained that those in opposition were deceiving the younger ones by laying emphasis on the hike in food prices.

According to him, Nigerians have to take into consideration what is happening to the economy globally, saying the Federal Government has tried to keep the prices of food at what they are today.

While clarifying that he did not mean the prices of food items do not matter, Keyamo maintained that the cost of items could have been worse if not for the efforts of the APC government.

“It is a lazy way to campaign by saying what is the price of tomato then, what is the price of tomato today. Prices have never been stable. So they (the opposition) should not deceive the younger ones. We are going to expose them soon.

“It is a lazy way to campaign using the price of tomato and rice. We are going to have a debate, we will put the global macroeconomics on a scale and put Nigeria on that scale as where Nigeria is. It is a lazy way to campaign.

“I am not saying the prices of tomato and rice do not matter. But I am saying it is a lazy way to campaign. It could have been worse. You cannot take Nigeria out of the global context. Nigeria is not in isolation,” he said.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Cost-of-rice-tomato-could-have-been-worse-if-not-for-Buhari-Keyamo

Wtf

With the overwhelming food insecurity ocastrated by the rampaging terrorists the government have refused to contained? You are a confirmed fool and idiot.

Keyamo nzuzu.

Gondonu:
You are a confirm fool and idiot.

Yes! That's why they are checking him up......

this nation is a mess already...the politicians should tell us how they intend to reduce the prices when elected...always stating the problems without practical realistic solution...


no more road,water, electricity...it's now tomatoes and rice...it's a shame....na so civilized society dey campaign...ALL POLITICIANS ARE FAILURES, DECEITFUL AND CLUELESS...

THIS IS HOW THE NEW GOVERNMENT WILL COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT FOR THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS...

for NIGERIA to work all politicians.... president, governors,house of rep..Senate..state house of assembly members must work towards one good course free of corruption. .

the way Nigeria is now.. politics should not be a profitable venture...but a venture of service where the money of the leader will even go into making Nigeria better...not borrowing money to pay politicians fat salaries and take good care of politicians...

NIGERIA IS A TOTAL MESS

The symbolic thing about apc and its supporters is that they take pride in their faliure

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Keyamo has finally gone mad... This dude used to be very sharp back in those days but then you can't work for Bubu and not go dull.

Very terrible party and supporters this APC.

This keyamo of a guy has really gone insane

Even if we can't produce much needed rice as a country, what is our excuse with Tomatoes that we used to be second largest producer after Egypt

Isn't Meyetti Allah now feeling the price hike and Insecurity

Northerner farmers have now turned bandits and Okada riders since farms get destroyed

Anyways the sooner people embrace sack farming and start growing vegetables the better

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TRUE o. Even dollar could have been N1500 if not that buhari decided to have mercy on nigerians

In as much as I no ever support buhari, even for one second, fear no let Kenyamo to make this statement. He no make this,statement. Cooking gas is now 1k per kg from 200/250 per kg. Its still low

Entprys:
TRUE o. Even dollar could have been
N1500 if not that buhari decided to have mercy on nigerians

damn

May APC happen to Keyamo and his family deeply.

this man is a big pig, why wont the prices of foods going high and naira getting worst when mr calamity keeps printing naira illegaly inside his bedroom?

There is no way you will support APC that you will not sound foolish because even a mad man makes lot of sense when placed along side with APC supporters

Very dum.b argument. Where else in the world has the price of rice or tomato increased by 150-200% in the past 5 years?

Festus dey ment

I live in the USA with my family, cost of gasoline, food items etc have gone up. Go to wall mart and shop, everything up. Gasoline( fuel) is about 5 dollars per litre up from about 3 dollars

chatinent:
May APC happen to Keyamo and his family deeply.

It's already happening to him reason why he is talking the way he is talking

Is this not keyamo we used to know as a human rights activist

I dont blame these people at all. I wonder why Nigerians can't give them Sri lanka treatment, power belongs to the people.

tinsel:
I live in the USA with my family, cost of gasoline, food items etc have gone up. Go to wall mart and shop, everything up. Gasoline( fuel) is about 5 dollars per litre up from about 3 dollars

don't start what you can not finish.

The more these buhari's heartless supporters try hard to defend him, the more stupiid they sound.

dododawa1:
don't start what you can not finish.

Leave people that are mental please. If you engage them, then you bring your sanity to their incapacitated state.

Idiota

I can't believe a sane human will confidently make this statement.
These so called political leaders are just selfish and evil

This man is mad

Shrimpss:
This is how the noise will end!
Peter Obi is coming!!
Peter Obi is coming!!
Peter Obi is coming!
Peter Obi is coming
Peter Obi is comin
Peter Obi is comi
Peter Obi is com
Peter Obi is co
Peter Obi is c
Peter Obiis
Peter Obii
Peter Obi
Peter Obb
Peter O

Sense is far from you!! Are yo okay with the situation these ppl put us into abi because u they lick from there Ass na why u come loose sense ni

tinsel:
I live in the USA with my family, cost of gasoline, food items etc have gone up. Go to wall mart and shop, everything up. Gasoline( fuel) is about 5 dollars per litre up from about 3 dollars

Because you guys voted Buhari pro max in the person of (for) bidden

'If'...

It could then also be argued that 'if' pmb had not emerged, it would have not been this bad...

However, the REALITY is that Nigeria & majority of Nigerians are worse off today than pre-PMB's administration... that's a fact.