Independence: Atiku knocks APC over economic woes
By John Okezie
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the economic hardship in the country.
Atiku, in an Independence Day message, by his media aide, Paul Ibe, commended Nigerians for their uncommon patience, endurance, amid suffocating socio-economic and security situation in the country.
He lamented that Nigerians are going through excruciating pains from “raging insecurity, rising food scarcity, mass unemployment, and a dangerous climate of hopelessness”, allegedly compounded by the APC -led administration.
“It is tragic that in a country blessed with immense human and material resources, millions of our people have been reduced to refugees and beggars in their fatherland. 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. Hunger is killing Nigerians, bandits are massacring communities, yet President Tinubu and his cabinet stand by, unmoved and uncaring “, Atiku stated.
The former Vice President, while urging Nigerians not to lose faith, stated that
2027 provides a clear opportunity to reject bad leadership and reclaim the promise of a better future.
“The beauty of democracy lies in the power of the ballot. 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.”
“At 65, Nigeria remains a giant moving painfully slow on feet of clay — a direct result of decades of poor leadership and wasteful governance. Yet, he urged Nigerians to keep hope alive, insisting that with the right leadership, the country can still rise from the ashes of failed governance to reclaim its rightful place among the comity of nations “, Atiku stated.
