The trip by the wives of the chairmen of the 21 local government areas in Adamawa State to Turkey, for a leadership training programme when they do not hold leadership positions in government was obviously an act of insensitivity to the plight of the people of the state, which hosts the poorest people in the North-east, Ejiofor Alike writes
The World Bank had in a report identified Adamawa State as the most poverty-stricken in the insurgency-ravaged North-east.
In a report titled: ‘The Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum: Development for Peace,’ the bank had put the poverty rate in most states of the North-east at 70 per cent.