Presidency blasts Atiku: Nigerians have already rejected your ideas <\/h1>\n

Atiku Abubakar<\/p>\n

\t \t\t Published By: Paul Dada \t\t\t <\/p>\n

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is pushing his untested agenda as a better alternative to President Bola Tinubu\u2019s economic reforms, says the presidency. <\/p>\n

Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. <\/p>\n

He noted that Atiku\u2019s ideas were already rejected by Nigerians in the 2023 election, adding that the ideas lacked details.<\/p>\n

According to Onanuga, if the former vice president had won the election, he would have plunged Nigeria into a worse situation or run a regime of cronyism. <\/p>\n

\u201cAbubakar lost the election partly because he vowed to sell the NNPC and other assets to his friends. <\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians have not forgotten this, nor would they be comforted by Atiku\u2019s antecedents when he ran the economy in the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s government between 1999 and 2003,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Onanuga added that Atiku supervised a questionable privatisation programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and his boss demonstrated a lack of faith in our educational system, and both went to establish their universities while they allowed ours to flounder. <\/p>\n

\u201cTalk is cheap. It is easy to pontificate and deride a rival\u2019s programmes even when there are irrefutable indices that the economic reforms yield positives despite the temporary difficulties. <\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the futile attempt to hoodwink Nigerians again in his statement, it is gratifying that the former Vice President could not repudiate the economic reforms pursued by the Tinubu administration because they are the right things to do,\u201d Onanuga said.<\/p>\n

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  He said the former vice president\u2019s advocacy for a gradualist approach only showed that he was not in tune with the enormity of problems inherited by Tinubu-led administration. <\/p>\n

  According to him, it is easy to paint a flowery to-do list. <\/p>\n

  The presidential aide noted that Tinubu met a country facing several grave challenges. <\/p>\n

  He recalled that fuel subsidies were siphoning away enormous resources the country could ill afford, and that there was criminal arbitrage in the forex market.<\/p>\n

  \u201cNo leader worth his name will allow these two economic disorders to persist without moving to end them surgically,\u201d Onanuga stated. <\/p>\n

  He said that, while advocating for gradual reforms may sound appealing, Tinubu took measures that should have been taken decades ago when the former vice president had the opportunity. <\/p>\n

  Onanuga, however, said the presidency had no problem with Atiku\u2019s calls for empathy and a human face to reforms. <\/p>\n

  \u201cWe have no problem with this as it resonates well with our administration\u2019s focus. Tinubu has consistently emphasised the need for compassion and protection of the most vulnerable. <\/p>\n

  \u201cThe administration has prioritised social safety nets and targeted support for those affected by recent economic transitions,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

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