APC Slams Atiku: ‘Open Your Eyes to Tinubu's Progress’
“You consciously choose to ignore Tinubu's accomplishments,” APC tells Atiku
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has come under fire from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for his remarks on President Bola Tinubu's first year in office.
The Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) presidential candidate for 2023, Atiku Abubakar, claimed in a statement on Tuesday that Bola Tinubu has made the country's economy worse.
The nation is in worse shape, the former vice president claimed, despite high expectations when Tinubu became president of Nigeria in May of last year.
According to Abubakar, Tinubu has “embarked on a cocktail of policies” without presenting any specific proposals for implementing the economic restructuring he had pledged.
Felix Morka, an APC spokesman, countered that the former vice president's disparaging remarks about Tinubu's programs demonstrate “primordial political envy and crass desperation for power” in a statement.
Atiku, according to Morka, is “willfully blind to the pace of progress” that the nation has made under Tinubu's leadership.
Tinubu's administration has “attracted over $20 billion into the economy” in the past year, according to an APC spokesman.
The statement reads: “Atiku's self-serving efforts to minimise the bold, genuine and metamorphic policies and interventions of the present administration only smack of primordial political envy and crass desperation for the power that Nigerians have so wisely denied him.
“The former Vice President lives in an alternate reality of prejudice and unpatriotic desire for Nigeria's failure so he may scavenge his way to an even more elusive presidency.
“Quite contrary to Atiku's claim, President Bola Tinubu's administration has, in its first year in office, attracted over $20 billion into the economy while the stock exchange has ballooned from N18.12 billion in Q1 of 2023 to N93.37 billion in Q1 of 2024, representing an increase of over 400 percent with an annual economic growth rate leaping from 2.5 percent to 3.46 percent.
“Key sectors of manufacturing, telecommunications, oil and gas, solid minerals, e-commerce, and fintech have continued to attract increased and ceaseless flow of foreign direct investments (FDIs).
“Yet, Atiku remains willfully blind to the pace of progress that is so self- evident.
“President Tinubu set an audacious target of building a $1 trillion economy in the next few years and has put together a bevy of experts and professionals, and introduced far-reaching policies and programmes to drive the actualization of this desirable economic target.
“The President needs the support and encouragement of Nigerians, not the bile-filled pessimism of partisan Atiku's.
“Atiku's false alarm of an imminent food scarcity boldface ignores the widely acknowledged proactive measures already introduced by President Tinubu to guarantee food security in the country.
“In December 2023, the federal government set a target for the cultivation of 500,000 hectares of land across the federation.
“Cultivation of rice, maize, wheat and cassava on over 246,231 hectares of land in 30 states of the federation is in progress in addition to approving massive grants and other incentives to farmers.”
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