Poverty has worsened under Tinubu’s govt – Atiku aide
The Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, has alleged that the new government of President Bola Tunubu has deepened the economic woes of Nigeria in just few weeks of assuming office.
Shaibu made the disclosure in a statement in Abuja, on Sunday, decrying that in just 40 days the new government has compounded Nigeria’s economic situation of the nation, adding poverty had deepened and inflation had skyrocketed.
He stated further that the poverty in the country had made innocent Nigerians susceptible to manipulation, now being exploited by the APC.
Shaibu said, “Today, food has become a luxury. The purchasing power of the people has dropped, no thanks to an unplanned petrol subsidy removal, which was not accompanied by any form of palliatives.
“With just N1,000, any riffraff on the street could be handed a T-shirt and placard to engage in protests they know nothing about.
“This is how low Nigeria has sunk since Tinubu took over the reins of government.”
Shaibu while expressing worries that Tinubu was running a government of hypocrisy by attributing the APC’s failures to select scapegoats, he said the failed to blame it on former President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Tinubu blamed Godwin Emefiele for the country’s economic woes and ordered his detention while he continues to shower praises on the man who not only retained Emefiele but gave him a national award. This is the height of hypocrisy,” Atiku’s aide said.
