Arc.Kabir Ibrahim led All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), has dissociated itself from the proposed Agrivest Reality TV Challenge Show slated for Abuja on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.
A statement on Monday issued by Alhaji Salisu Mukhtar, Assistant National Public Relations Officer of AFAN, explained that Nigeria is currently grappling with unprecedented food inflation and the real farmers are busy on their farms.
Mukhtar noted that the proposed launch of Agrivest Reality TV Challenge Show “by one Faruk Mudi who parades himself as AFAN President without authority is reductive, fraudulent and self-serving.”
According to the statement,”The call for the Nigerian public to attend the launch of Agrivest Reality TV Challenge Show in Abuja at this time(August)when Nigeria is grappling with unprecedented food inflation and the Tinubu Administration has declared a state of emergency on food security is laughable and smacks of ignorance of Nigeria’s agriculture.
“The motivation to promote this misadventure is clearly pecuniary and relevance seeking by an opportunist operating under the guise of promoting agriculture.
“The same person, in violation of AFAN constitution took it to the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) knowing full well that its constitution defines it as non-political,non-religious and non-governmental.
“The newly appointed Ministers of Agriculture and the FCT who are being advertised to be Guests of Honour and Chief Host respectively at the occasion should be ware of the misadventure as it is at cross-purposes with the current situation in Nigeria’s food system.”
