The presidential campaign committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the border closure policy of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government, describing it as a failure.
The spokesperson of the presidential campaign council, Senator Dino Melaye, said the federal government policy had not been able to end the growing price of rice and smuggling even in Katsina State, which is the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to Melaye, “One of the touted gains of the border closure, according to APC, is the phantom rice revolution arising from containing smuggling of imported rice through border closure. Nigerians are, however, wondering why rice is now more expensive and unaffordable during and after the border closure.”