The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has advocated for Nigeria to have its own poverty measuring parameters different from that of the World Bank.
Papers News reports that Ajayi said the comparison made by the President’s Special Adviser on the Economy, Tope Fasua, that $1 is big money in Nigeria because a Nigerian can feed with it was right.
In a statement on his 𝕏 handle, Ajayi condemned critics of Fasua’s stance. He argued that the real value of money is not in the exchange rate in comparison to another currency, but what it can buy in the market.