{"id":110711,"date":"2024-02-26T03:32:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T02:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=110711"},"modified":"2024-02-26T03:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T02:32:35","slug":"youre-responsible-for-nigerias-economic-woes-atiku-tackles-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/youre-responsible-for-nigerias-economic-woes-atiku-tackles-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re responsible for Nigeria\u2019s economic woes\u2019\u2014 Atiku tackles Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1791904396332970916\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has blamed the economic hardship in Nigeria on President Bola Ahmed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe former Vice President of Nigeria disclosed this in his official X account on Sunday, where he called on Tinubu to learn from Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei how to regain investors\u2019 confidence in a short time despite inheriting a disoriented economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is where we are today simply because of what Tinubu has done or did not do. His shifting the blame on the opposition and, even ridiculously, his predecessor is needless and myopic. Market forces don\u2019t play politics. They respond to your actions and inactions,\u201d Atiku posted.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThe examples set by President Milei are the requirement of leadership in a time when the economy has begun to fail the people\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reforms implemented by the Tinubu administration are ad hoc and hurriedly put together without proper review. Ours is unlike Argentina\u2019s Milei, who is sequencing his reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Milei anticipates the after-reform shocks and admits that things will be tough for the people. But he is fully prepared for the aftershocks and has in place mitigating pills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe walks the talk. He sacrifices himself by giving up the perks of office. It is not business as usual for the presidency while the people are called upon to make sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArgentina runs a lean government by reducing the number of ministries, privatising nearly 40 state-owned enterprises, and reducing wasteful spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversely, Tinubu in Nigeria increased the number of ministers and ministries and is spending enormous resources renovating houses for himself, his deputy, and the first lady.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is nothing short of Nero playing fiddle while Rome is on fire! Worse still, Tinubu has refused to roll up his sleeves and do the work that he signed up for. Instead, he and his team are preoccupied with behaving like Napoleon and Squealer, characters in the satire book Animal Farm, who made it a state policy to scapegoat Snowball (the opposition) for their failures arising from their ill-advised policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am attracted to the reforms in Argentina because Javier Milei\u2019s stabilization plan bears a similar emblem to my Recover Nigeria Plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a plan that I am more than willing to disclose details of its workings with the current government to take Nigeria out of the hunger and anger that we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan includes strategic steps to recover the economy and make it stronger, dynamic, resilient, and competitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless, and until there are clear-cut policies and pathways to economic rejuvenation predicated on a leadership-led sacrifice, there will be discontentment, especially among the youths, which may find expression in protests and for which it will be silly to continue to blame the opposition for,\u201d Atiku stated.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has blamed the economic hardship in Nigeria on President Bola Ahmed. 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