Debunking Atiku Abubakar's Inimical Excesses By Yazid Inuwa MK Bauchi

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu taking over the Presidency on the 29th May, 2023, a ray of Renewed Hope dawned that there is going to be a brighter future in the horizon and soonest it will come. Nigerians are really looking forward towards a break from the past, wishing that under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, things will take a U-turn in a positive way forward that will give satisfaction to many.

Many have commended President Tinubu for appointing a capable and professional team of public officials in Ministries, Departments and Agencies to aid him in rolling out his ambitious manifesto, including Cabinet Ministers, in order to lift this country from the abyss of under development.

However, the former vice president Atiku Abubakar is yet to reconcile himself with his defeat in the polls. Atiku Abubakar has refused to heed to the calls for him to concede his defeat, go back home and lick his wounds. But instead, he renegades himself so low to the extent of engaging in a propaganda war with the Renewed Hope economy's performance, making fulsehood allegations in the name of Nigerians that were impoverished by the PDP's 16 wasteful years of misrule that the present APC-led government is working hard to ameliorate. 

In his cheap blackmail, Atiku Abubakar's excesses is inimical to Nigerians' Renewed Hope but rather, a deliberate attempt to be economical with fact by putting words in the mouths of of Nigerians that the Renewed Hope “economy's performance has, in recent weeks and months, been a subject of intense discourse among Nigerian citizens at home and abroad.” 

The former vice president who could not manage his Party, the PDP, to extend that his fellow Party men worked against him in the 2023 presidential election. Instead of him to start reconciling with his aggrieved party members, he brought himself so low to extend of, blatantly, passing obvious excesses that “Nigerians are gravely concerned, and rightly so, that Tinubu’s poor response to Nigeria’s economic challenges is setting the stage for a prolonged and deeper domestic economic crisis.” 

Tinubu and his economic management team, through the Renewed Hope piscal and monetary policy have glaringly answered Atiku Abubakar's question: “Tinubu and his economic management team must swallow their pride, admit their missteps and failures, and follow those who know the terrain. They must act fast before the economy sinks deeper into the abyss.” 

The question is, will they? As Atiku Abubakar asked. 

Yazid Inuwa Malamin Kasuwa Bauchi

Northeast Zonal Coordinator, TSM

7 February, 2024