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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and President Bola Tinubu’s administration have locked horns over a grim security record. Atiku seized on reports showing 5,091 violent deaths over three months to demand the president’s resignation. He blamed fiscal indiscipline and budget padding for starving frontline troops of necessary hardware. Numbers tell a terrible story. The former vice-president…
A frontline rights group wants Nigeria’s top politicians to expose their personal wealth ahead of 2027. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project challenged President Bola Tinubu and opposition leaders to disclose their assets. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi lead a nineteen-candidate list facing the voluntary challenge. SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare issued the demand in…
Nigerian households have quietly withdrawn from the market for homes, vehicles and durable goods, and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s own survey instrument is now the document at the centre of a fierce political argument over whether the country’s economy is recovering or merely stabilising on paper. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a blistering critique of President Bola Tinubu’s economic claims, insisting official statistics conceal widespread hardship. In a statement issued by his media aide Phrank Shaibu, the opposition leader argued that the macroeconomic recovery narrative collapses in the face of shuttered factories and hollowed-out family budgets. Polished charts do…
Nigeria’s economic scoreboard has become the latest battleground between the presidency and the opposition, with Atiku Abubakar accusing the Tinubu administration of dressing up hard numbers to look better than the hardship Nigerians are living through. The African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, in a statement issued through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication,…
A combative pledge by President Bola Tinubu to “wrestle” his rivals ahead of the 2027 general election has drawn a sharp rebuke from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, reigniting a bitter contest over the state of Nigeria’s economy and the direction of the country’s public finances. Tinubu had, during an audience with the leadership…
The African Democratic Congress has waved aside a forecast by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will lose the 2027 election, describing the projection as a personal prayer rather than an evidence based assessment. Special Adviser to the ADC National Chairman on Research, Policy…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Tuesday restored the registration of the African Democratic Congress and four other political parties, vacating a Federal High Court judgment that had directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to strike them off the register with preparations for the 2027 general elections already under way. A three member…
Fresh bloodshed in Southern Kaduna has reopened Nigeria’s bitter argument over worsening insecurity, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accusing the administration of President Bola Tinubu of prioritising foreign applause over the safety of citizens. In a statement issued on Monday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku, who is…
Old political grudges die hard in Nigerian politics. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed fresh bribery allegations made by his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo claimed Atiku paid five million naira to former Speaker Ghali Na’Abba to trigger impeachment proceedings against him two decades ago. Atiku, through his media aide Phrank Shaibu, accused Obasanjo…
