What is the point of record government revenue if food, transport and electricity remain unaffordable?

Government counts the naira but conveniently refuses to count what the naira can buy.” Atiku said the proper test of an economy is therefore not the size of the figures announced after FAAC meetings, but what those allocations can actually purchase and what obligations they are capable of meeting. “If FAAC is truly booming, then where is the boom? Where is it in the price of food? Where is it in transport? Where is it in electricity, healthcare, housing and jobs? Where is it in the purchasing power of salaries? Government cannot become richer on paper while the people become poorer in reality and then expect Nigerians to applaud the contradiction.” He said the contradiction becomes even more glaring when the debts still carried by states are placed beside claims of unprecedented revenue.