In an Independence Day critique, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of presiding over an administration completely detached from the suffering of ordinary Nigerians, while predicting its eventual defeat at the polls.
The 2023 presidential candidate, now aligned with the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition, delivered his assessment through a sharply worded statement that portrayed the current government as fundamentally negligent in its core responsibilities.
“Hunger is killing Nigerians, bandits are massacring communities, yet President Tinubu and his cabinet stand by, unmoved and uncaring,” Atiku declared, capturing what he described as the administration’s central failing.
The former vice president contrasted the government’s actions with basic principles of governance, stating: “Every responsible government holds the welfare and security of its citizens as supreme. But what we have today is an administration that has abandoned its people.
“Looking toward the future, Atiku positioned the next election as the ultimate corrective mechanism, asserting that “oppressed and battered as our people may feel today, they will have the chance to sweep away this inept government at the next polls. That is the power no cabal can take away from the people.”
He described Nigeria at 65 as “a giant moving painfully slow on feet of clay, a direct result of decades of poor leadership and wasteful governance,” adding that Tinubu’s policies that have left millions “reduced to refugees and beggars in their fatherland” despite the country’s abundant resources.
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