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"The drop of food prices in the market has killed our farmers" - Peter Obi

The drop of food prices in the market has killed our farmers. It has put them into more poverty.

— Peter Obi

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— High Chief Lawrence Igbins Okoro (@HighChiefOkoro) February 28, 2026

[quote author=Slytiger post=138612657]"Crashing food prices will make our farmers poor. We must ensure high food prices to save the farmers…”

“Crashing food prices will make our farmers poor. We must ensure high food prices to save the farmers…” pic.twitter.com/99qlTh3rF1

— Ayekooto (@DeeOneAyekooto) February 28, 2026

behind your level of comprehension.



You allowed farmers to use costly tools and materials to farm,at the time of harvest you import cheap fool stuffs from other countries.


What does that mean for the farmers?

loveth360:
It's behind your level of comprehension.



You allowed farmers to use costly tools and materials to farm,at the time of harvest you import cheap fool stuffs from other countries.


What does that mean for the farmers?

So what's your solution?

Keep the high prices?

Then tomorrow you and Peter Obi will complain about "hunger in the land"?

And he will start calling Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Confused set of people.

Better call instead for more incentives or subsidies for farmers, to lower their production costs, NOT return Nigerians to high food prices in the name of 'protecting farmers'. You can't sacrifice the interests of the majority for one group.

This one go just dey open his mouth waaa…
So we the masses should continue paying ridiculous prices, yea?

Or those farmers didn’t do us bad too when they increased food prices before?
Make Una dey play good opposition jhare, it’s not every time he should talk abeg!.

These are the enemies of the country, vultures and hyenas that want to get to power.

When food prices were high, they were using it as a campaign slogan. When the prices are coming down, they are coming out to display their sadness.

The billions of naira Buhari threw at the farmers under the Anchors borrowers , how did it help?, farmers were smiling to the bank, the masses were crying. A new Government came with an alternative to ease inflation but Bitter people are not happy.

Nigeria indeed dodged a missile.

Kemetian:
So what's your solution?

Keep the high prices?

Making farmers to be poor,Is that the solution?


Reasonable government will help the farmers to make food cheaper.


Many ways to achieve that.

Obi is constituting nuisance. Very unpatriotic. A liar.

Unpatriotic call from Peter Obi.

Kai, who do Obi this kind thing, no wonder only a mad man can advice him

How did you and your chief morner of the federation arrive at the conclusion that food is reducing because of importation? So beans, garri, tomatoes that are reducing are all imported?

Shame suppose de catch una.

loveth360:
Making farmers to be poor,Is that the solution?


Reasonable government will help the farmers to make food cheaper.


Many ways to achieve that.

Slytiger:
"The drop of food prices in the market has killed our farmers" - Peter Obi

******* It will. People are already gnashing their teeth. Some farmers have debt. The other day, someone sold his cassava farm for opueke price to herdesmen to feed their cattle.

But Nigerians don't care. They're not interested. Government no send. In a couple of years when high prices come around again, they will wail and cry endlessly about "greedy farmers" and "meedle men".

The man is confused. He doesn’t even know where to stand again.

Okay, let’s make food prices expensive.

This Peter obi and other obidients no too get sense.

I saw Dino Melaye behind Obi in the video. Melaye only goes to an assembly of clowns.

When you dont know what to say again to chase clout.

To think that some people were saying this guy was the best thing after Yellow Garri and Goat Meat Pepper soup is worrisome.

Abeg, if na like this APC do opposition you think say dem go fit pursue PDP? Make this man rest joor before he go Misyan Nasiru wen don dey chop watery beans for 6days going now.

Obi is just clueless about everything. He talks carelessly.

Audio crashing....everything is gradually retur

I have said it before and will say it again.

The only thing opposition have to contest with next year is insecurity... The ebi pawa they were using as slogan last year is no longer applicable as tje cost pf food item has been going down since... inflation rate YOY is lower, exchange rate is going down.... more project progress reports are being shown everywhere, this one is not go and verify, instead there are video evidences.

That is why I still suspect that majority of the insecurity in the country is fueled by these opposition, if not as major players then as enablers or at the very least supporters of insecurity, otherwise they would have nothing to contest the next election wiith.

Peter Obi, you are not a sincere person

Peter obi is wicked and unsympathetic. Farmer were building houses and buying cars when a paint rubber of beans was 600 naira.

That headline is misleading. Listen to Peter Obi and understand that the Person that wrote the headline is mischievous.

Peter Obi was mak8ng reference to basic foods being imported, which have automatically killed farming. Manufacturing houses have been turned to warehouses of imported foods which is not a good one for the country.
In line with his consistent slogan, he said he would move the country from consumption to Production. Now we are importing basic foods we should plant that simply means we have killed farming and farmer's business in Nigeria.

Of course it will come with serious consequences.

People up there can't comprehend. They don't even have data to listen to Peter Obi.

This Obi is becoming a talkative

I'm sure he was quoted out of context

Obviously this was not the only thing he said but they just extracted this one in order to create mischief

Many of my Farmer's colleagues had refused to harvest their cassava for over 2 months running ndue to loss incurred already before processing or even transporting the commodity to MARKET... 😭

loveth360:
Making farmers to be poor,Is that the solution?


Reasonable government will help the farmers to make food cheaper.


Many ways to achieve that.

Trillions of naira that CBN gave to the farmers under Emefiele to help produce food and make it cheaper, what did it achieve?.

Are you bitter people not the ones still begging the Government to open the borders and allow food come in?. Because Gbajue has spoken in his usual ignorant manner, una must support the nonsense he's saying?.

Slytiger:
"The drop of food prices in the market has killed our farmers" - Peter Obi

See who una wan vote as presido.

Peter Obi should keep quiet its not everything he must comment on...

Lol
Tinibu Agbad0rian boys will be boku in this thread.

Anything Peter Obi dey bite Dem for body like ants.

It now occur to me that this man has nothing to offer truly.

Arghhh what did oppositions want

Did they want the average Nigerians to starve to death

What we need is government support for our farmers to produce at lower and profitable prices not advocating for famine just to enrich farmers

I'm even tempted to call this current oppositions cry cry oppositions

What a very dummb and unintelligent take.
When the food prices are on the rise, the same Obi and his bandwagon were busy shouting "how much is a bag of rice" but today that the prices have stabilised, he's still finding fault as usual.