Every day, facts and figures emerge that show that this administration is one bereft of governance ideas and epitomizes ineptitude in a grandiose scale.

Yesterday, the National Bureau of Statistics released some troubling figures reflecting unemployment and economic engagement in Nigeria.

An impassioned X-ray of this data reveals that Nigeria is in a despondent state.

NBS report shows that 4.07 million Nigerians joined the unemployed pool in the third quarter of 2017; making the total number of unemployed Nigerians to stand at 15.99 million.

It is therefore pathetic and sad that the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the President Muhammadu Buhari led Administration decided to run to town in gleeful ululation of misplaced joy at the report that 77.55 million Nigerians were working out of an active workforce population of 85.08 million.

The APC in their inebriated ecstasy forgot to comprehend the irony in the fact that out of 77.55 million Nigerians engaged in economic activities, 18.02 million were underemployed while 51.32 million were self-employed in farming activities (29.66 million) and non-farming activities (21.66 million).

It is instructive to note that this category of Nigerians gets no direct or secondary support from this government.

What this means is that Nigerians being resilient people, irrespective of the anachronistic economic policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration, are relying on self-help to create some sort of employment for themselves even though the harsh economic situation in the country is in its most unfavorable point.

From the report, we can glean that most Nigerians are resorting to subsistence farming as a way out of the debilitating hunger and poverty creeping all over Nigeria like clinging ivies.

Now the question is if hunger is not being used as a weapon by this APC government, why isn't President Buhari taking proactive security measures to curb the menace of killer herdsmen slaughtering innocent Nigerian farmers and destroying their farms?

If President Buhari can't create jobs; ensure the security of lives and properties, or effectively fight corruption without shrouding it in favoritism, cronyism, and nepotism, what then is he still doing as the President of Nigeria?

I want Nigerians, particularly the youths, to know that they are the bosses and the buck stops at their PVC. It is therefore imperative that every Nigerian get their PVC and show President Buhari that we own Nigeria not him. With our PVC, we the electorate can hire and fire after every four years.

As you go about getting your PVC, remember that it wasn't this bad under the PDP.

Signed

Rt. Hon SKE Udeh Okoye
National Youth Leader (PDP)