The Presidency has accused the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of carving a niche for himself as the “opposition-in-chief” to President Bola Tinubu and his government.
Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, said Atiku took up the new role due to the failure to achieve his life-long ambition of ruling Nigeria.
In a statement he issued, Onanuga, however, said Atiku was doing a poor job by offering pedestrian and uninformed interventions on the economy and other matters of public concerns.
According to Onanuga: “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has certainly found a new hobby to keep himself busy, having failed to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is increasingly carving for himself the role of opposition-in-chief to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government.
“However, we notice that the former Vice-President, just like in his political contests, is also doing a poor job of it, offering pedestrian and uninformed interventions on our economy and other matters of public concerns.
“Atiku’s latest diatribe was another uncharitable commentary on the state of the economy and the efforts of the President Bola Tinubu administration in remoulding it for sustained prosperity.”
You’re opposition-in-chief to Tinubu, doing bad job at it – Presidency blasts Atiku