NewsYou Helped Create This Rot: Presidency Roasts Atiku For Roasting Buhari

You Helped Create This Rot: Presidency Roasts Atiku For Roasting Buhari

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BEVERLY HILLS, March 29, (THEWILL) – The Presidency has slammed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who at the weekend vilified President Muhammadu Buhari over the country’s rising unemployment statistics and its degeneration into a failed state.

Aso Rock at the weekend returned the favour, calling Atiku part of the rot the nation became.

In an interview on Channels TV Sunday Politics, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said Atiku views about 30 million Nigerians being of jobs was hardly new.

According to the former newspaper Editor, in the build-up to the 2015 elections, when the APC was campaigning, the figure used by Buhari was that a minimum of 30 million Nigerians were unemployed, particularly youths and that his government was going to do something about it.

Adesina said Atiku now quoting those selfsame statistics tried to make it appear like a genie that just popped out of the bottle, but that the figures had always been there.

Adesina stated that Atiku was in power for eight years, saying that now that he is in the opposition, one could not take whatever he said as the gospel.

“When Abubakar was in government with President Olusegun Obasanjo, where did they take the country? Where did they leave the country?” he said.

Adesina added that he had seen clips on social media where Atiku said some things they promised to do, particularly on power; and that some people collected some trillions and didn’t deliver.

“Former Vice-President is part of the rot this country became. He cannot exculpate himself; he cannot sit in judgment over anybody. He played his part for eight years and they left the country where they left it,” he said.

According to him, Atiku could not like Pontius Pilate, begin to wash himself clean of what Nigeria had become.

According to Atiku, “I have never felt so bad at being proven right, as I am by the report from Bloomberg Business on Saturday, March 27, 2021 that Nigeria is to emerge as the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth, at just over 33%.

“We warned about this, but repeated warnings by myself and other patriots were scorned –and now this! We are at a precipice as a nation and the truth is that all stakeholders and elder statesmen have to speak up on time, while there is still a Nigeria to save.

“This government obviously lacks the capacity to address our current challenges, and we must help them, not because of the government, but because of our people.

“In a situation where we are simultaneously the world headquarters for extreme poverty, the world capital for out-of-school children, and the nation with the highest unemployment rate on Earth, there is a very real and present danger that we might slip into the failed states index – God forbid.”

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