Hon. Rahman Owokoniran is the South-west zonal general secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with JOY ANIGBOGU , he speaks about the controversies around national minimum wage, proposal about return to regional government, state of the nation, among other issues.
Excerpts: Can you do a brief assessment of Tinubu’s one year in office? I promised myself that I would not talk about Tinubu’s administration until after two years. I won’t mind saying one or two things. There are two things that you cannot ignore, one is the insecurity in the country.
There’s nowhere that is safe in the country. People say that there are killings in the north. What is going on there is like ethnic cleansing and the government should be concerned about that.
In other parts of the country it doesn’t mean that the situation is better because people are not safe to go to work. If it’s not a one-chance that would kidnap them and exhaust their life savings, it’ll be snatching of vehicles, armed robbery. Kidnapping is going on in Ibadan-Express.
So, Insecurity in the land is alarming and the government must do something about it. The other one is “Ebi n pa wa”. We are hungry.
It’s unimaginable, everyday suffering of Nigerians. People are really hungry. You can look at it from the inability to feed on a daily basis.
The critical area affects people’s health and the health services are no not cheap. You are safer to be healthy than to be unhealthy. If you’.
