NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that Nigerians cannot keep quiet when the policies of the President Bola Tinubu administration are causing pain and distress to the rest of the country.
In a statement he personally issued on Sunday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, accused the President of failing to offer any concrete measures to tackle the foreign exchange crisis and rising poverty in a recent meeting he called on the issue.
According to the former vice president, Tinubu rather used the occasion to warn against distraction from “cooking their cocktail” that has continued to cause hardship in the country.
He stated: “At a meeting called at his instance on Thursday to address the Foreign Exchange crisis and the problem of economic downturn, among others, Bola Tinubu failed, yet again, to showcase any concrete policy steps that his administration is taking to contain the crises of currency fluctuation and poverty that face the country.
“Rather, he told the country and experts who have been offering ideas on how to resolve the crisis that he and his team should not be distracted and allowed time to continue cooking their cocktail that has brought untold hardship to the people of Nigeria.
“I don’t agree with that. The wrong policies of the Tinubu administration continue to cause untold pain and distress on the economy and the rest of us cannot keep quiet when, clearly, the government has demonstrated sufficient poverty of ideas to redeem the situation.
“If the government will not hold on to their usual hubris, there are ways that the country can walk out of the current crisis…
