Atiku vows not to stop talking, accuses President of cluelessness

Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, said that he will keep speaking up for Nigerians who have become victims of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘grand cluelessness.

Atiku stated in a statement issued on his behalf by his media aide, Paul Ibe, adding that the Buhari administration is living in denial and relying on propaganda, and only becomes responsive when he comments on issues.

He insisted that the government has not responded to a report by the UNDP which stated that 98 million Nigerians were living in multi-dimensional poverty because he was yet to make a remark on it.

“On July 10, the United Nations reawakened Nigerians to the brutal reality of how poorly the Buhari administration has managed the nation’s economy with a damning verdict that 98 million Nigerians live in multi-dimensional poverty.

“Like it is typical of Buhari and his handlers, they didn’t make any comment about the scary statistics coming from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

“Perhaps, one reason they didn’t want to comment on the report is because it is factual; Nigerians in the past four years indeed, live in multi-dimensional poverty.

“The other plausible reason they didn’t deem it fit to respond to the report is because Atiku Abubakar has yet to make a remark on the report. If the only reason why the Buhari administration will react to the affliction it has brought on Nigerians is for Atiku to call the nation’s attention to how bad things have gone in the country under the slumber of Buhari.

“Atiku will more than always, be ready to stand and speak up for the millions of countrymen and women who have become victims of his (Buhari’s) misrule and grand cluelessness,” the statement added.

The Daily Times recalls that the Presidency had last week warned Atiku, who contested the February 23 presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and lost to Buhari, to stop presenting himself as an alternate government.

The Presidency reminded him that the country operates the American system of presidential democracy and not the British model of parliamentarian system of government.