Alwan Hassan, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, said on Tuesday that Nigerians are not that hungry, but opposition politicians are deploying hunger rhetoric to campaign.

“People are not that hungry the way the opposition is portraying it. That is an opposition rhetoric,” Mr Hassan said in an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday. “I will say it anywhere. People are not that hungry as the opposition politicians are portraying it.”

The spokesperson claimed that food prices had fallen in the market thanks to Mr Tinubu’s food importation policy.

“Farmers are complaining because food prices are down in the market. Why? Because this government is importing and reducing the price,” Mr Hassan said.

Meanwhile, President Bola Tinubu, at an APC presidential rally in Jigawa on Tuesday, acknowledged that food prices are high while campaigning that he would ensure they come down.

“We will lower the cost of living for security… We can feed ourselves, and we will bring the food prices down to the minimum,” Mr Tinubu said.