Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the presidency, on Sunday, squabbled over the state of the nation, especially the tottering economy. Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2023 presidential candidate, who took a swipe at President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, advising him to eat the humble pie and adopt some of the policies in his manifesto in order to turn around the economy for good. But the presidency, in its response, said if Atiku had won the 2023 presidential election, which was held in March last year, Nigeria would have been worse under his watch.
In a long statement personally signed, Atiku said he had been inundated with questions as to what he would have done differently if he was at the helm of affairs of the country. He stated, “I am not the president, Tinubu is. The focus should be on him and not on me or any other.
I believe that such inquiries distract from the critical questions of what Tinubu needs to do to save Nigerians from the excruciating pains arising from his trial-and-error economic policies. ”However, I understand and appreciate the challenges faced by citizens in seeking alternatives to what is not working for them. I hope Tinubu and members of his administration are humble enough to borrow one or two things from our ideas in the interest of the Nigerian people.
“I would now go ahead and articulate some of our ideas that would have had the potential to transform our beloved country,” he said. On subsidy removal, Atiku pointed out.