Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has described the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s revised Presidential Marketing campaign Council as “a crowded confession of Tinubu’s worry.”
Atiku stated the duration of the listing printed a President extra desperate to rely politicians than solution for what Nigerians have persisted.
In a observation issued on Wednesday by way of Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communique of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Marketing campaign Council, Atiku stated, “Just a guy petrified of his file would assume he may bury it beneath masses of names.”
He added, “Tinubu can collect each and every governor, minister and political defector in Nigeria. None of them can erase the starvation in folks’s houses, convey again the ones killed by way of violence or loose Nigerians nonetheless held captive. Their households are looking forward to solutions, no longer every other marketing campaign listing.”
Atiku additionally criticised Tinubu’s dealing with of the price of residing, announcing the President had “room for a military of ministers and a stadium filled with marketing campaign officers, however no room in his plans for Nigerians overwhelmed by way of the price of residing.”
He stated the President’s political actions and endorsements would no longer exchange the stories of Nigerians beneath his management.
“He might encompass himself with elite pals and fill his marketing campaign time table with endorsements, however the listing of Nigerians made up our minds to vote in opposition to him is for much longer,” Atiku stated.
He added, “On January 16, Nigerians will solution with one query: Are we beneath Bola Tinubu?”
The previous Vice-President additionally condemned the inauguration of the APC Presidential Marketing campaign Council throughout the Presidential Villa in Abuja, describing the verdict as an abuse of public place of business.
“The Presidential Villa belongs to the Nigerian folks. It’s not a marketing campaign venue or the non-public belongings of any political birthday party. The use of it for an APC political match is a gross breach of public consider and a troubling abuse of public place of business,” he stated.
Atiku wondered why the President selected to inaugurate the marketing campaign council at evening throughout the Villa when different venues have been to be had.
“Abuja has no scarcity of halls and public areas big enough to host a marketing campaign collecting. Why, then, did Bola Tinubu make a choice to inaugurate his marketing campaign council at evening, at the back of the gates of the Presidential Villa?” he requested.
He added, “However a president assured in his file will have to be prepared to stand the general public in sunlight and ask for every other mandate.”
Atiku additional criticised what he described as political excesses within the management, evaluating the expanded marketing campaign council with the dimensions of the Federal Government Council.
He stated, “When the primary listing drew complaint, Tinubu had an opportunity to turn that he understood the rustic’s anger. As an alternative, he returned with a good longer listing, achieving into different events for extra names. He’s amassing politicians like shields in opposition to public judgment.”
In keeping with him, the President’s marketing campaign council may no longer deal with the industrial difficulties and lack of confidence going through Nigerians.
“The 2026 International Multidimensional Poverty Index recorded an build up of 17.9 million Nigerians residing in multidimensional poverty. 3 and a part years of Tinubu’s management have left thousands and thousands in deeper hardship and 1000’s extra traumatised by way of lack of confidence,” he stated.
Atiku additionally argued that the marketing campaign council’s dimension would no longer resolve how Nigerians assessed the management’s efficiency.
“No marketing campaign council, on the other hand crowded, could make meals inexpensive, repair a employee’s buying energy or give an explanation for why the sacrifices demanded of extraordinary Nigerians by no means appear to achieve Tinubu’s personal political circle,” he stated.
He stated the ADC had assembled a marketing campaign crew to offer its case to Nigerians, including that the birthday party’s marketing campaign would focal point at the demanding situations going through families.
“The ADC has assembled a targeted marketing campaign crew to take its case to Nigerians. Tinubu can stay including names to his council. He can not upload a reputation that may make existence inexpensive once more for the households suffering beneath his executive,” Atiku stated.
He maintained that Nigerians would pass judgement on the President by way of their stories beneath his management, bringing up meals affordability, employees’ buying energy, college charges and lack of confidence.
“Households face starvation, hardship and worry each day. No crowd of politicians can stand between a President and his abysmal file,” he stated.
“Tinubu can encompass himself with each and every political heavyweight in Nigeria; on election day, he’s going to nonetheless face the individuals who lived thru his screw ups and their listing is for much longer.”