Barely 24 hours after the presidency replied the African democratic Congress, ADC’s presidential candidate, Atiku abubakar, the Former Vice President has fired back at President Bola Tinubu, describing his attack on his proposed petroleum-sector intervention as the insolent sermon of a failed economic experimenter.
Atiku, in a statement by his senior special assistant on public communication, Phrank Shaibu, the opposition party’s presidential candidate said Tinubu had mistaken Nigerians’ capacity to endure suffering for evidence that his policies are working.
Atiku said there was an almost comical audacity in Tinubu calling anyone economically ignorant after presiding over an economy where government revenues have ballooned while citizens’ purchasing power is currently collapsing.
The former vice president noted that If economic ignorance had a presidential seal, the president would have used it as his personal official logo, stressing that the tinubu’s administration detonated simultaneous fuel-price, exchange-rate and cost-of-living shocks across a fragile economy while watching millions become poorer, and now struts around Abuja demanding applause for the wreckage.
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The ADC presidential candidate stated that the Tinubu’s courtiers have clapped because of the FAAC allocations increment but hungry Nigerians cannot boil FAAC figures for dinner, adding that Businesses cannot power factories with presidential speeches, workers are unable to pay transport fares with macroeconomic grammar, and parents hardly settle school fees with statistics manufactured for State House applause.
Atiku challenged the Presidency to use the speed mobilizing army of propagandists to attack him within hours in similar enthusiasm through his accountants to explain the approximately ₦30 trillion in Federation Account revenues, deductions, savings and transfers that Atiku has demanded for reconciliation as well as the ₦12.8 trillion Service-Wide Vote in the 2026 budget.
The 2023 presidential candidate further reminded President Tinubu that removal of fuel subsidy was supposed to save money, floated the naira, piled taxes, and levies on Nigerians. Federation revenues ballooned, yet citizens are living in poor conditions.
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