Foremost Northern mouthpiece, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has lamented that some policies of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government are responsible for the deteriorating standard of living, inflation and unemployment in Nigeria.
The forum also warned that Nigeria might witness social chaos, particularly in the northern region if nothing was done to address the biting economic harsh.
The ACF made the remarks after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Kaduna on Tuesday.
ACF noted that times continued to be tough and challenging for average citizens whom it said were daily confronted with crisis of inflation, unemployment, rapid deterioration in standard of living coupled with incidents of insurgency, terrorism and banditry.
In a communique issued and signed by the National Spokesman of the Forum, Professor Tukur Muhammad-Baba, it lamented that the problems had remained dire, acute and chronic in some places, especially in the North.
The Northern mouthpiece largely blamed the economic hardship on fuel subsidy removal, introduction of taxes and levies by the federal government, saying that these policies were responsible for rapid decline in living conditions of citizens.
