 The MBS has just published poverty and inflation numbers and they are quite high, surprisingly. What are the immediate concerns of these, you know, records? I mean, three things worry me. One is the fact that 133 million people have been plunged into poverty. Now, that should worry every life-thinking Nigerian, especially at a time of hiding insecurity across the country. Men's young people can find jobs and that means that the likelihood of them falling into crime becomes extremely high. The second, of course, is the record inflationary numbers that we've seen. The highest in 17 years and worse is the food inflation that is being recorded. That means people have to pay much more for every food that they buy and eat. Recall that most Nigerians spend more than 40% of their income on feeding. Now, the high inflation on food, you know, and other items, particularly transportation, it means the average Nigerian will be spending over 60% of their income on food and transportation. And I think that is devastating because that means very little, you know, for other consumption or discretionary spending, you know, and that slows down the entire economy and stifles growth. Okay, do you think the manifesto is being presented by the leading candidates who address these challenges? And I have looked at some of these manifestos and how they, you know, seek to address this challenge. I know that Atikwa Abu Bakr wants a market-led economy for the private sector to drive growth. Ashwajib Bola and Etinibu spoke specifically to inflation in his renewed hope manifesto, and his argument was that we cannot deal with inflation by trying to stifle growth. If you recall that the response of the CBN towards this high inflation was apparently to tighten money supply, which is to raise interest rates from banks, to essentially mop up excess liquidity from circulation. But as Bola and Etinibu has argued, that the real problem with the economy and inflation that we have seen is not just the disruption of the global COVID supply chain or the higher gas prices occasioned by the crisis in Ukraine and Russia. The problem is that locally there are peculiar challenges like insecurity that has stopped hundreds of thousands of farmers from going to the farmlands. These infrastructural challenges within our economy is the reliance of importation of consumables that is driving these inflationary numbers. And to tackle that particular challenge, what we need to do is to ease interest rates so that we can drive production in the economy. And like he has rightly won, which I agree with 100%, if we continue to tighten money supply, if we continue to force interest rates to go high, what will happen is that businesses will be unable to borrow from banks. Many of them will fail their obligations to their banks and that will inadvertently strangle the economy, will cause loss of jobs, and of course, we just might be to another recession. So to that extent, I agree or align with how he intends to deal with inflation. And I think for Peter of here, I haven't really looked at his manifesto regarding the economy, but if you follow what he has said consistently, one of the things that he wants to do is, of course, to tighten government spending, which is to stop this outlandish and this bogus spending from the federal government essentially to cut waste and be a lot more frugal at the federal government level. And that probably would increase a lot of savings for the economy. And by and large, these are how some of these candidates have put forward arguments on how to deal with the challenges that we confront, specifically with high inflation and unemployment and the astonishingly frightening poverty numbers that have just been published by the MBS. Okay. Now, food insecurity and other infrastructure deficit on the line, you know, the major indices, what have we failed to look at as a nation? I think on food, I think that the elephant in the room here has been insecurity. What has happened over the last six, seven, perhaps a decade is that food centers, particularly in the north central part of the country, have consistently been attacked, whether it's by bandits, whether it's by terrorists or whatever you call them. They have essentially destroyed the food basket along the north central corridor and made it difficult for farmers to produce food. It's even gotten worse in recent years because even farmers in the northwestern part of the country where a lot of tomatoes, paper, a lot of grains are being produced have been unable to access the farmlands because of insecurity. And if you put all of these things together, it's made it extremely difficult. It's reduced its first food shortages across the country, which essentially has pushed the prices of food, you know, upwards. Of course, infrastructure deficit is another problem. The inability to move goods from farmlands to the markets at the most realistic and the most affordable rates is another issue that we have to deal with. And more recently is that the flooding in the last month that has essentially ravaged many communities across the country is another thing that will push food prices a lot more further. So I think that what we need is a national emergency plan to be able to ensure food security, you know, in our country to ensure that we have enough, we push production up to be able to feed ourselves and to be able to export to the global committee of nations. So except we do that, we will continue to struggle with food inflation and begin to price basic meal away from, you know, the average Nigerian who earns, you know, less than a dollar a day. Thank you so much, Mr Ayodele Adil. Thank you. We've been discussing about tackling inflation with the MPI rating. I mean, the statistics that have been dropped just yesterday. Thank you so much for sharing your views on this with us.