Rising cost of living deepening hardship in Nigeria, says LP Reps candidate

The Labour Party candidate for Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency, Ebonyi State in next year’s general election, Dr Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh, has argued that rising living costs and declining household purchasing power have deepened hardship across the country.
Ezeh, in a political commentary on the state of the nation, described the situation as a progression from “broken pockets” to “broken dreams” and ultimately “broken homes and a broken society”.
He criticised the economic policies of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government and attributed what he described as widespread economic and social distress to what he considered policy failures and inadequate accountability under ...