Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been attacked over comments warning of an imminent revolution in Nigeria due to hunger, that hunger and insecurity can precipitate violent revolution in the nation.
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka yesterday blasted Atiku for making such comment being someone who was once a vice President. He describes Atiku’s comment as false and instigating anarchy. He described it as “a new low in a recent streak of incendiary commentaries by Atiku”.
Morka said the statement was “reckless, irresponsible, unbefitting and degrading to his status as former Vice President”.
“While garbed as a critique of the economic policies of President Tinubu’s administration, Atiku’s statement is nothing short of a tacit instigation of a revolution in Nigeria. His statement is reckless, irresponsible, unbefitting, and degrading to his status as former Vice President.
“As a two-term Vice President, Atiku and his PDP, at the time, had the opportunity, backed by humongous oil revenues, to eradicate hunger, poverty, and insecurity. Atiku and his PDP failed to do so. In fact, they made absolutely no impression against hunger, poverty, and insecurity in Nigeria. They governed for 16 years, did not and could not eradicate hunger, poverty, and insecurity in Nigeria.
“Instead, Atiku and his PDP democratised hunger and poverty in our country. They plundered and looted our treasury, and enthroned corruption and profligacy as state policy. Atiku and his PDP cemented the sordid foundations of hunger, poverty, and insecurity that President Tinubu is battling courageously and relentlessly to defeat, with growing success.
“As Vice President, Atiku was clueless about solving Nigeria’s economic challenges. As a forever-presidential aspirant, he remains eminently clueless about what it takes to tackle our country’s economic challenges.”
Earlier, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, had blasted Atiku over same comment. He noted that Atiku and his party remain “stuck in the past, fixated on doomsday scenarios and revolutionary rhetoric,” even as the country records notable progress under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
