Former Anambra State Governor and presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that Nigeria’s food insecurity has worsened significantly in the three years since President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security, challenging the administration’s claims of agricultural progress.
Obi, in a post on his X handle on Thursday, acknowledged that the Tinubu Administration had cited several interventions in the agricultural sector, including the July 2023 food security emergency declaration, the acquisition of 2,000 tractors and 9,000 farming implements, described by the government as Nigeria’s largest ever agricultural mechanisation programme.
However, he argued that these measures had failed to translate into meaningful improvement for ordinary Nigerians.
Obi pointed to Nigeria’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index, which he said has slipped from 103rd out of 127 countries in 2022/2023 to 115th out 123 countries in 2025/2026, placing Nigeria among the most food-insecure nations in the world.
He also cited a Work Bank projection that as many as 33 million Nigerians could face severe hunger.
“Nigeria has no reason to be seen among the hungriest nations in the world when we have vast, uncultivated land in the north, which is our greatest asset today,” Obi said, calling for transparent investment in agricultural production as a path to both food security and job creation.
